What does place mean

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place

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

place

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a ceremony takes place

▪ The ceremony took place on 13th June at 2:30.

a championship takes place

▪ The world indoor athletics championships took place in Canada.

a clash takes place

▪ Fierce clashes took place with local police.

a contest takes place

▪ The contest took place in Berlin.

a demonstration takes place

▪ Violent street demonstrations took place in the capital.

a far-off land/country/place etc

▪ visitors from a far-off land

▪ far-off galaxies

a fight takes place (=happens)

▪ The fight took place outside a nightclub.

a migrant comes from/to a place

▪ A majority of the migrants had come from this region.

a picnic spot/place (=a place that is suitable for a picnic)

▪ We found a beautiful picnic spot.

a place is full of memories (=makes you remember things that happened there)

▪ My old home is full of unhappy memories.

a place of entertainmentformal (= a place where people can go to enjoy entertaiment)

▪ Clubs and other places of entertainment must close by 3am.

a place to live

▪ They’ve finally found a place to live.

a storm hits/strikes (a place)

▪ We should try to get home before the storm hits.

a storm lashes/batters a placeliterary

▪ Fierce storms lashed the coastline.

an attack happens/takes place (also an attack occursformal)

▪ The attack took place at around 10 pm Thursday.

an earthquake hits/strikes a place (=happens in a particular place)

▪ The region was struck by a major earthquake last year.

an event happens/takes place (also an event occursformal)

▪ The event took place last year.

an execution takes place (=it happens)

▪ In Elizabethan times, the execution of traitors took place on Tower Hill.

an explosion takes place/happens

▪ The largest explosion took place at the main post office.

appropriate time/place etc

▪ I didn’t feel that this was an appropriate time to mention the subject of money.

be (put/placed) on red alert

▪ All the hospitals are on red alert.

beat sb into second/third etc place

▪ He was beaten into second place in the Monaco Grand Prix.

book a place on sth

▪ Students are advised to book a place on the course early.

bring peace to a place

▪ She was praised for her efforts to bring peace to the region.

click into place/position

▪ Make sure the lid clicks firmly into place.

decimal places (=one of the numbers after the full stop in a decimal)

▪ calculations accurate to three decimal places

deserve a place

▪ You need top grades to deserve a place at the best universities.

distant places

▪ She loved the wild, distant places of Scotland.

evolution happens/takes place (also evolution occursformal)

▪ We can see signs of evolution taking place in the world around us.

evolution takes place (also evolution occursformal) (= happens)

▪ A similar evolution was taking place in other great American cities.

expansion takes place (also expansion occursformal)

▪ The biggest expansion occurred in the volume of small issue government bonds.

far-flung corners/places/regions etc

▪ expeditions to far-flung corners of the globe

▪ people flying to far-flung destinations

forbidding place/land/landscape etc

▪ We sailed past the island’s rather dark and forbidding cliffs.

had a special place in...heart

▪ Her second son had a special place in her heart.

hardly the time/place/person etc (=a very unsuitable time, place, person etc)

▪ This is hardly the place to discuss the matter.

hiding place

hold sth in place/position

▪ A couple of screws should hold it in place.

keep/put sth in a safe place

▪ Keep your credit cards in a safe place.

lay/place sth end to end (=in a line, with the ends touching)

▪ The roof tiles are laid end to end.

lonely place/road/spot etc

mark...place

▪ She placed a bookmark between the pages to mark her place.

meeting place

▪ The pub is a popular meeting place for local teenagers.

no place

▪ There’s no place left to hide.

parking space/place/spot

▪ I couldn’t find a parking space near the shops.

place a bid

▪ The gallery placed the highest bid of $2.5 million.

place card

place kick

place limitations on sth

▪ Spending limitations have been placed on the council's housing budget.

place mat

place name

▪ Many of the place names are Scottish in origin.

place of pilgrimage

▪ Presley’s home has become a place of pilgrimage.

place of residence

▪ Rome was his main place of residence.

place of worship

▪ The ceremony must take place in a recognized place of worship.

place sb in custody (also put sb into custody)

▪ Few young people are placed in custody.

place setting

place the blame squarely/firmly on sb (=blame someone in a very definite way)

▪ A military investigation placed the blame squarely on city officials.

placed under curfew

▪ The whole town was placed under curfew.

place/impose an embargo on sth (=start an embargo)

▪ The UN imposed an embargo on trade with the military regime.

place/lay emphasis on sthformal

▪ The coach has placed the emphasis firmly on youth by including three teenagers in the team.

place/put a burden on sb

▪ This situation places the main burden of family care on women.

place/put a high value on sth

▪ Our society places a high value on education.

place/put constraints on sb/sth

▪ Lack of funding is putting severe constraints on research.

place/put sb under arrest (=arrest someone)

place/put sth on record (=officially say something or write it down)

▪ I wish to put on record my objection to the scheme.

place/put/lay a bet on sth

▪ She placed a bet on a horse called Beethoven.

place/set sth in context (=consider something in context)

▪ The issue must be placed within its historical context.

prominent place

▪ The World Cup will have a prominent place on the agenda.

prominent place/position

▪ The statue was in a prominent position outside the railway station.

proper place (=where it should be)

▪ Everything was in its proper place.

public places

▪ proposals to ban smoking in public places

put/place (a) strain on sb/sth

▪ Living with my parents put quite a strain on our marriage.

put/place an advertisement in a paper/newspaper

▪ I tried putting an advertisement for lodgers in the local paper.

put/place obstacles in the way (=try to stop someone from doing something easily)

▪ Her father put several obstacles in the way of their marriage.

put/place restrictions on sth

▪ The authorities placed strict restrictions on diamond exports.

put/place sb at a disadvantage (=make someone less likely to be successful than others)

▪ Not speaking English might put you at a disadvantage.

put/place sb in a dilemma

▪ His divided loyalties placed him in a dilemma.

put/place sb in a good/awkward etc position

▪ I'm sorry if I put you in an awkward position.

put/place sb in command

▪ A third goal put Brazil in command of the game.

put/place sb on high alert

▪ Troops were put on high alert.

(put/place sb) on probation

▪ He pleaded guilty and was placed on probation.

put/place sth in jeopardy

▪ The killings could put the whole peace process in jeopardy.

put/place sth on a ... footing

▪ He wanted to put their relationship on a permanent footing.

put/place your faith in sb/sth

▪ The Conservative party put its faith in the free market.

put/place your trust in sb/sth

▪ You shouldn’t put your trust in a man like that.

put/place/impose a ban

▪ The government has imposed an outright ban on fox hunting.

rightful place

▪ George sat at the head of the table, in his rightful place as their leader.

sb’s last/final resting place (=the place where someone is buried)

sb’s place of employment formal (= the building where they work)

▪ They had a long journey to their place of employment.

sb’s place/country of birth

▪ I wanted to find out my father’s place of birth.

secure place

▪ Keep your passport in a secure place.

secured...place in history

▪ Redgrave won his third Olympic gold medal, and secured his place in history.

secured...place

▪ Boyd’s goal secured his team’s place in the Cup Final.

Strategically placed

▪ Strategically placed video cameras can alert police to any trouble.

take your place in a queue (=join it)

▪ I walked to the bus stop and took my place in the queue.

the country/place of origin (=the country or place where something is made or produced)

▪ The rugs are somewhat cheaper in their country of origin.

the police raid/storm a place

▪ The police raided his home and took his computer.

there is no better way/example/place etc

▪ There’s no better way of exploring the region.

tie for first/second etc place

▪ Woosnam and Lyle tied for fourth place on 264.

tourists flock to a place (=visit it in large numbers)

▪ Tourists have flocked to the area ever since the TV series was filmed there.

tourists visit a place

▪ About six million tourists visit the country each year.

unfamiliar surroundings/place/environment etc

▪ She stood on deck to gaze at the unfamiliar surroundings.

watering place

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

different

▪ Not surprisingly research on different places produced conflicting results.

▪ An Irving Gill-designed Balboa Park would have been a very different place from the one we love today.

▪ Indeed, outside of London few cities can offer such a choice of different places to eat.

▪ We grew up, went off to different places, drifted apart.

▪ And we know that the climate is changing in a myriad of different ways and different places all around the world.

▪ There were 17 different places where the dirt-and-rock bed of the tracks had been washed away.

▪ All that matters is to educate the local predators, and that can be done with different colours in different places.

▪ After twenty miles, the three slick-ship companies separated, to land at different places around the target.

good

▪ A good place for private parties.

▪ I decided that Farmington was not a good place for renting.

▪ Is it a good place to live?

▪ The Border Patrol agrees that the heavy brush offers good hiding places.

▪ Arthur and I went for long walks - and that little village was the best place in the world.

▪ The company, like many companies in those days, was for most employees a good place to work.

▪ It is pierced at the front, is stiff and hard, has a good fixed place.

▪ One of the best places for grand sycamores is the north fork of Horrell Creek, in the Superstition Mountains.

other

▪ Only in towns and at a few other places could trains going in opposite directions pass.

▪ I went to Brighton and saw for myself the absence of most of the top players due to other events taking place.

▪ They have already been ordered out of Gracanica, Sanski Most, Sanica and so many other places.

▪ There's plenty of other places.

▪ There must be other places in the evening where Suzie might be expected to put in an appearance.

▪ Yet, like other places, Utah has to turn to low-tech services to soak up its growing numbers of literate job-hunters.

▪ There was only one other place he could be: in his private apartments on the third floor.

proper

▪ Certainly, these are important highlights and should be given their proper place and emphasis in the narrative.

▪ She demanded strict ritual performances from them, a proper place to live, sacrificial objects and so on.

▪ However, each level has its proper place and helps in the understanding of the others.

▪ The parents come up with a just and proper reason to place blame, and they get it instead.

▪ Encouraging and enabling the laity to take their proper place in the Church?

▪ These were difficult and unsettled times, when people needed to be reminded about their proper place and duties.

▪ The last wish then has to be used to restore one each of these to its proper place.

▪ We will stop the wanton sale of school playing fields and ensure that sport takes its proper place within the curriculum.

public

▪ Other initiatives Commissions for companies, public places and so on are usually advertised in the press and art magazines.

▪ We see each other in public places and we give each other the nod.

▪ It became an offence for anyone in charge of children to allow them to bet in public places or to enter brothels.

▪ If you serve alcohol in a public place, you may have to buy liability insurance. 10.

▪ All the time people are burnt in the public places.

▪ So if a litter tray is in too public a place, this too may drive them elsewhere.

▪ He even felt slightly awkward sitting out with her in a public place having coffee.

▪ Jeff was obviously calling from a public place.

right

▪ I had a client in the right place at almost the right time.

▪ Indeed, her heart is in the right place.

▪ As Fred again points out - her heart's in the right place.

▪ It was in the right place at the right time.

▪ More importantly, independents can be the right place for artists who want to keep a degree of creative control.

▪ Ride, acceleration and handling: Triple aces in all the right places.

▪ Forrester recommends three principles for companies wishing to build fences in the right place.

▪ I arrive at the right place, pull out my three-by-five card, ask my questions, and wait.

safe

▪ Your premium of £ has been based on the information shown in a safe place.

▪ It just makes your world a kinder, safer place.

▪ There are some who advocate that, now that that has happened, the world is somehow a safer place.

▪ She put her card away in a safe place - then couldn't remember where.

▪ And when I got there I stayed there, it was the safest place to be.

▪ Denial is a safe place to rest while waiting for grace.

special

▪ The Yorkshire Dales win a special place in visitors' affections.

▪ Back then, it was a special place because it had no rival.

▪ We will miss Father who had a special place in his heart for Middlesbrough Diocesan Pilgrims.

▪ We already have a very special place in golf.

▪ The victim does not have a special place in the criminal court.

▪ When Miles loved the Waldo books, they, too, were given a special box, a special place.

▪ I've got a special hiding place.

▪ Helen had taken it to a special place to have it framed, Theresa recalled.

well

▪ In this sense the world would be a better place without mental retardation, madness, and senile dementia.

▪ Now, there are other things to think about if we want to make this a better place.

▪ Could there be any better time or place to be alive?

▪ I often think the world would be a better place if I were dead. 4.

▪ It will be a better place for my wives.

▪ What a better place this world of ours would be if more for-profit organizations would act a little more like nonprofits.

▪ I suggest that the front row of the chorus at the Folies Berge res would have been a better place.

▪ Of what you can do to make this a better place to live.

wrong

▪ The other members of the joint chiefs agreed with him that the Indochina conflict was the wrong war in the wrong place.

▪ It was somewhat over-elaborate, or, rather, the complications were in the wrong places.

▪ I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

▪ He was also in the wrong place again.

▪ They were homely, draped in plaid and khaki, hairy in the wrong ways and places.

▪ It clung to all the wrong places.

▪ What is going to emerge is a lot of debt and a lot of unused capacity located at the wrong places.

■ NOUN

hiding

▪ The tank was very densely planted, with lots of hiding places for these shy fish.

▪ The rats had not shown themselves again, but I'd begun to feel them watching me from shadowed hiding places.

▪ They can be territorial, so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places.

▪ It was C ... who had informed Peter of this hiding place.

▪ From their hiding place they heard one burst of profanity from the driver before other voices crowded round.

▪ Asik was astonished, he forgot about his hiding place behind the tree and jumped into the road.

▪ She glanced hastily behind her but, as in the kitchen, there was no obvious hiding place.

▪ Emmie had climbed into her hiding place on the roof of the old summer-house, to smoke.

market

▪ Many pastoral and voluntary caring relationships are now bought and sold in the market place.

▪ The first time buyers recognise the opportunities in the market place.

▪ Prep schools have no secure catchment area, they have always depended on the forces of the market place for their survival.

▪ With a beady eye he watches the drama of the market place.

▪ I believe that part of our responsibility in A&R is to introduce new artists and sounds to the market place.

▪ This ruling, in effect, accepted the reality of a global market place.

▪ Standing in the market place, we are - not always but very often - at the origin of things.

▪ Such monetarist policies meant that employment and interest rates were left to find their own levels in the market place.

meeting

▪ Voice over It's a recruiting ground for the younger generation and a meeting place for old friends like Billy Connolly.

▪ The smart cocktail bar is an ideal meeting place with a pleasant atmosphere and the restaurant serves a good selection of food.

▪ The first meeting place was in a small room with only one window in Lady Stair's Close, Lawnmarket.

▪ Next evening Dad drove the hired car round Mosta, searching for the meeting place.

▪ Above all, the centre is a meeting place and focus for Catholics from all over Calderdale.

▪ Municipal offices and meeting place of the City of Edinburgh District Council.

▪ Under the republic the forum was both a market place surrounded by shops and a public meeting place.

■ VERB

find

▪ Even such mundane tasks as eating or drinking have found a place in some ballets.

▪ Consult with the Negroes in town and find her her own place.

▪ Many are soldiers of the cross who returned from the Holy Land to find their places filled.

▪ My editor found a place I could house sit for a few weeks in the suburbs.

▪ At last I found the right place on an island off the north coast.

▪ Sometimes when you find such a place it makes that grid seem to disappear.

▪ We found the place some days past.

▪ We have to move innumerable times to find a place where we can watch in peace.

hold

▪ In other words, it would need to be held in place by a strong political framework.

▪ Have the student slowly remove the hand that was holding the cardboard in place.

▪ The battery can be held in place using a double-sided adhesive pad or a home-made aluminium fixing bracket.

▪ They were held in place only by their buoyancy. could wobble and rattle them with ease.

▪ You will become an important part of a lively and challenging community which will always hold a special place in your life.

▪ A cord is pulled tightly around the crown to hold it in place.

▪ Make sure that the wire retainer clips are pressed down firmly to hold the towel in place.

▪ The white shirt under the gray suit-jacket is stiffly starched; the tie is held in place by an alumnus tie-tack.

live

▪ Is it a good place to live?

▪ Despite these frustrations, San Diego still is second on Anders' list of nice places to live.

▪ It all has to do with kinship, and a shortage of places to live.

▪ First things first: I had to rent a modest place to live.

▪ A lot of people consider London to be big and ugly, and not a very nice place to live.

▪ When Susan and I visit her, we leave real fast: this is no place anyone should live in.

▪ He had been looking for a place to live.

▪ In that gray place the three women lived, all gray themselves and withered as in extreme old age.

put

▪ It is therefore essential that the control mechanisms for each are put in place at the beginning of the design stage.

▪ They pick up the fallen stones and put them back into place, virtually raising the thousand-year-old temples anew.

▪ Take advantage of wet soil to put mulches in places, especially round newly-planted stock.

▪ The two bombs that exploded in Vallejo were put in place by a bomber.

▪ At boys' initiation ceremonies, a Mukula log is put near the place where they are circumcised.

▪ The eggs need to be put in a warm place to hatch.

▪ When the etchings are taken down inmates will have another kind of picture to put in their place.

▪ The discovery had begun to put humankind in its place.

take

▪ The murder could easily have taken place over the boundary, in the Metropolitan police area.

▪ In spirit, then, I will take my place at the barricades beside Mr Wei.

▪ It will cover the changes that have taken place in assessment since the original version was first published in 1988.

▪ He took first place with all seven judges.

▪ Johnston and his colleagues believe that almost all mid-plate quakes have taken place in such weakened areas.

▪ We've succeeded on this one and we're very pleased it's taking place.

▪ The turf thing, that took place somewhere else.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a/your happy place

among other things/places/factors etc

▪ But that study was highly criticized for poor mammograms, among other things.

▪ I'd like him to look specifically at Personnel's computing problems among other things. 3.

▪ It was noticeable, among other things, that she was drinking faster than anybody else.

▪ Sniping by the president's men has, among other things, forced the foreign minister to resign.

▪ That could mean, among other things, grouping inmates by race in counseling.

▪ That meant, among other things, keeping them from making any deal that gave real estate to the Vietminh.

▪ The industrial revolution, among other things, necessarily produced general literacy.

▪ You have to give Cronenberg credit for nerve, among other things.

any old thing/place/time etc

▪ He could play with Orlando any old time.

▪ If you believed that, then you'd believe any old thing.

as good a time/place etc as any

as if/as though/like you own the place

be (stuck) between a rock and a hard place

be in the right place at the right time

▪ "You did well to get that contract.'' "Not really, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.''

▪ An off--duty cop happened to be in the right place at the right time to stop a robbery.

▪ Being a successful news photographer is all about being in the right place at the right time.

▪ He could be in the right place at the right time when top jobs come up for grabs next summer.

▪ He was in the right place at the right time and hustling as he usually does.

▪ If we do not provide sufficient places, the necessary skill will not be in the right place at the right time.

▪ It was in the right place at the right time.

▪ They just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

▪ You have to be in the right place at the right time with the right partner and the right judges.

be in the wrong place at the wrong time

▪ Kambule claims he was just a bystander when the shooting occurred, a kid in the wrong place at the wrong time.

▪ The driver was drunk and hit her as she was crossing the road. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

change places (with sb)

▪ He immediately changed places so he could sit next to me.

▪ Our lives are hard, but theirs are miserable. I would never change places.

▪ All the other players then change places.

▪ But now the two men have changed places, and the boat has worked its magic.

▪ Gwenellen and I changed places soundlessly.

▪ No, it was too late to change places at this stage of his life.

▪ On odd days, we changed places.

▪ Rabia and Zahara changed places, and Rabia now squatted between Jane's legs, watching intently.

▪ This is paradox, rather than metaphor: two directly opposed concepts, life and death, change places with each other.

▪ Why don't you change places with me?

fall into place

▪ Gradually the clues started falling into place, and it became clear who the murderer was.

▪ Once the police received this new evidence, things began falling into place.

▪ Things are finally falling into place for the team.

▪ Another piece of the jigsaw had just fallen into place.

▪ But just in time, it fell into place.

▪ Gradually the new global masterplan is falling into place: a series of massive bilateral trade agreements are being struck.

▪ I am like the painter of that mosaic, the small pieces are falling into place and I need your help.

▪ Mechanisms to ensure gender balance in appointed government bodies were also falling into place.

▪ That was our greatest moment together, I think, the moment when our whole future fell into place at last.

▪ The route had by now fallen into place.

▪ Yet it was not until researchers extended the same effort to the oceans that the bigger tectonic picture fell into place.

first prize/place

▪ First prize was an award of $ 1, 500 for the biggest female killed during the year.

▪ Even though Ausmus should never have been sent away in the first place.

▪ In the first place, it deals with those elements in human nature which are timeless.

▪ In the first place, it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed.

▪ In the first place, it was relativist; it proclaimed no value system as its basis; it lacked normative quality.

▪ It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.

▪ My family, my household, and my job all demand first place in my life!

▪ This assumes that banks have surplus liquidity in the first place.

fix a time/date/place etc

▪ Before fixing a date do some research.

▪ Employers generally fix a time limit on the payment of these allowances.

▪ He added that while Yeltsin is breathing somewhat easier than he had been, there is no fixed date for his discharge.

▪ She said she loved him, they said they loved him, but somehow nobody would fix a date for a marriage.

▪ The court will either grant the request on written application or fix a date for hearing.

▪ The court will then fix a date for consideration and serve notice on the applicant.

▪ The court will usually fix a time limit for service when making directions and this must be complied with.

▪ They fixed a date for the weekend and he kissed her goodbye.

from place to place/house to house etc

have friends in high places

▪ Bowen had friends in high places, and managed to raise large sums of money from the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations.

▪ He won't lose his job -- he has plenty of friends in high places.

▪ I just happened to have friends in high places, who could arrange things like meetings with the mayor.

▪ The Achym family had friends in high places, including the powerful Lord Burghley, and were allowed to return.

▪ But Tony and his colleagues have friends in high places.

▪ We have friends in high places, they said.

have/take pride of place

▪ A runaway hamster called Sophie takes pride of place where the school rat once roamed.

▪ A Tudor Doll's House takes pride of place in a fine collection of houses and period dolls.

▪ Are they to take pride of place, as they should in ballets worthy of the name?

▪ At Maastricht next month, political, economic and monetary union will take pride of place.

▪ Glass would have pride of place, she said.

▪ The statue takes pride of place at Gerrards Cross station.

▪ There, pit latrines inside homes take pride of place, their arched entrances lavishly embellished with stone carvings.

▪ These were retrieved and now take pride of place in the library.

highly placed

▪ It is not the first time Cole has investigated highly placed public figures.

▪ Last night a highly placed source said the last 12 months had spelt the end of the marriage.

▪ Now and then, as a favor to highly placed people, Papa performed operations.

▪ Some highly placed people were in fact former pupils of his.

▪ The Gingrich investigation is hardly the first time Cole has taken on highly placed public figures.

▪ The proportion of highly placed advisers who had nothing to lose if serfs were emancipated would accordingly diminish.

ideally suited/placed/situated etc

▪ It is ideally situated along a charming stretch of canal, near to the Waterlooplein.

▪ Missing too are some of the ski mountaineering classics which are ideally suited to Nordic touring gear.

▪ Researcher Robert Glover felt that Austin was ideally suited to launch a school-to-work effort.

▪ The clearing banks were ideally placed.

▪ The hawthorns are a greatly under-rated family and several are ideally suited for small gardens.

▪ These skills need much greater emphasis in schools, and work-based learning is ideally suited to acquiring them.

▪ This is another species ideally suited to the heated aquarium.

▪ We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons.

in the first place

▪ I should never have gone in the first place!

▪ In the first place, New York is very cold in the winter, and in the second place I don't want to move anyway.

▪ In the first place, they have a more experienced team, so they're more likely to win.

▪ We haven't made a decision, because, in the first place, we do not know enough at this point.

▪ Well, in the first place, Quinn would never say such a thing.

▪ And there is the question of the relevance of the trading of information in the first place.

▪ But he came in the first place, to something he knew would be far beyond him.

▪ He didn't remember being given that form; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place.

▪ That's how the Richardson's got the Parrot in the first place.

▪ The better approach, in my opinion, is to eat the right foods in the first place.

▪ These women should never have been sent to prison in the first place.

▪ This assumes that banks have surplus liquidity in the first place.

▪ We robbed them of their land in the first place to reward the Annamese who collaborated with us.

know your place

▪ I'll get back to the kitchen then - I know my place!

▪ Everyone knew their place in the family, and Dad's was usually behind the newspaper.

▪ George W.. Bush knows his place in the 1996 presidential race.

▪ He knew his place, Shamlou mused contentedly.

▪ It ought to know its place, which ought not to be No. 1.

▪ Mitch and I know our place.

▪ She did not love him, but he knew his place.

▪ There was a lot to be said for knowing your place if you wanted help from Bloomsbury House.

▪ We know our place in this world.

lie (in) second/third/fourth etc (place)

▪ After his win in Frankfurt on Sunday, he lies second in the series just behind Michel Robert.

▪ Driving a Banbury prepared Prodrive Subaru, McRae now lies third in the championship.

not have a hair out of place

▪ He sat at his desk, not a hair out of place, and turning a pencil over in his hand.

▪ He seemed stern and austere and never had a hair out of place.

▪ Joel never has a hair out of place.

of all people/things/places etc

▪ A kitten, of all things.

▪ He of all people picks his words carefully.

▪ She heard, of all things, a piano.

▪ She was a homeless wanderer until tiny Delos alone of all places on earth consented to receive her.

▪ So, in Missouri, of all places, my Koreanization began.

▪ The rest of my offences were committed in self-defence, when I found the hands of all People were against me.

▪ There I was admitted by the butler, of all people.

▪ William Forsyth began it before he sold out, with the help of John Brown, of all people.

place of honour

▪ His portrait hangs in the place of honour in the Boston office of the Anglian Water Authority.

▪ It had the place of honour because, as he'd said earlier, it was unique.

▪ It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art.

▪ Richard Wilson, the genius of landscape painting, has a place of honour.

▪ Stan Wood is the man and he can already claim a place of honour amongst the great fossil hunters of the world.

▪ They enjoyed the greetings of people in the street and they loved places of honour at banquets.

▪ They were brought out on only a few special occasions and were always carefully washed and returned to their place of honour.

resume your seat/place/position

▪ Will the delegates please resume their seats?

▪ By the time Michele returned and resumed his seat she was sipping her wine, her plate almost empty.

▪ If your opponent interrupts you, resume your seat while he is speaking.

▪ Madame Olenska rose, wound it up and returned to the fire, but without resuming her seat.

▪ Mr Scott resumed his place, a look of quiet satisfaction on his face.

▪ They resumed their seats and Owen slipped away into a tide of music and colour.

▪ Winnie resumed her seat and her knitting.

safe place

▪ I liked the town, for all its drab and muted calm; it seemed a safe place to be.

▪ In currency markets, when the going gets tough, the investors go to safer places.

▪ It just makes your world a kinder, safer place.

▪ She put her card away in a safe place - then couldn't remember where.

▪ There are some who advocate that, now that that has happened, the world is somehow a safer place.

▪ While I was absent, Wemmick had warned Herbert to move our guest to a safer place.

sb's heart is in the right place

▪ He can be rude and bad-tempered sometimes, but his heart's in the right place.

▪ Mike's a little grouchy sometimes, but his heart's in the right place.

sb's kind of person/thing/place etc

swap places

▪ After a short distance he swapped places with the woman and drove her and the baby to Winchester.

▪ Holyhead could well swap places with the Sealink's basement club Penmaenmawr Phoenix.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ a quiet, private place to read in

▪ a sore place on my knee

▪ Always keep your passport in a safe place.

▪ Are you sure this is the right place? I don't see Emma.

▪ Britain is one of the most highly populated places in the world.

▪ I don't think there are enough places for everyone.

▪ I know a good place to get your car serviced.

▪ I was looking for a place to park the car.

▪ If I get a place at Manchester, I'll take it.

▪ Jennifer quietly took her place at the table.

▪ Jenny has a place to study law at Exeter this year.

▪ Keep your passport in a safe place.

▪ Let's go back to my place for dinner.

▪ Manchester United go up two places after their win at Liverpool.

▪ Nothing had been stolen, and all the CDs and tapes were in their usual places.

▪ Plant the daisies in a sunny place.

▪ She was born in a place called Black River Falls.

▪ Sign your name on the list, and find yourself a place to sit.

▪ Stuart bought a nice place over on Oak Street.

▪ Studies show that students from wealthier backgrounds are more likely to be offered places at high-achieving schools.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Before they were finished, the first charges went off and the place became a hornets' nest.

▪ Even where links were still in place, their future remained uncertain.

▪ I always asked his permission before taking a place next to him on the divan.

▪ In spite of that, when they arrived, the place took hold of her.

▪ Our safe places were attacked by hooligans, and the authorities looked the other way.

▪ The best place to walk is in the middle of the pavement.

▪ To this place the young Athenians were each time taken and left to the Minotaur.

▪ Words take second place to nonverbal cues, personal mannerisms, gestures, expressions, and overall appearance.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

better

▪ They may be better placed financially than many tenants, but their security of tenure can end with retirement.

▪ The world will be a much better place to live in in about 1, 000 days.

▪ And the wretched thing is that Gore is no better placed.

▪ But what better place for Swindon to score their first league win of the season.

▪ What better place to start than on our own doorstep, with the world famous collections of the Barber Institute?

▪ Unionists had a majority in Lloyd George's war cabinet, but were little better placed in his government as a whole.

strategically

▪ Black and white is the theme here and a large white claw-and-ball bath is strategically placed in the centre of the room.

▪ A few strategically placed stones will show off individual ferns.

▪ She hoped he noticed the Durex she had strategically placed in the top of one of her stockings.

▪ Events are strategically placed along its 5-mile length, with major attractions at either end and smaller events along its path.

▪ Inside the venue, they are strategically placed along the edge of a concert stage.

▪ A Flintstones Band-Aid is placed strategically over the poster.

■ NOUN

advertisement

▪ In addition the church might consider placing paid advertisements from time to time, highlighting forthcoming events which could be made especially attractive to the outsider.

▪ It is essential that sections 0404 and 0405 of this manual on Investment Advertisements is read and understood before placing any advertisements.

▪ Neild placed advertisements in the newspapers appealing for donations.

▪ When you do, place an advertisement in the personal column of the International Herald Tribune to read as follows.

▪ Spooky ... Switching to a smaller scale, we placed advertisements in South London newsagents.

▪ How do place advertisements create meanings for different localities?

arrest

▪ Why, he asked himself, had his uncle, Earl Rivers, been placed under arrest?

▪ Police arranged to meet Robinson on the street, then brought him in for questioning and placed him under arrest.

▪ After thirty-six hours during which Kim was permitted to speak publicly of his ordeal, he was placed under house arrest.

▪ Woolley placed her under close arrest for mutiny.

▪ Park then placed him under house arrest, while his captors went free, and later imprisoned him for sedition.

▪ After he voluntarily returned home in 1985, Kim was placed under house arrest again.

bet

▪ He placed the bet by messenger.

▪ About half the normal amount of trades took place as traders were reluctant to place bets ahead of the long weekend.

▪ Sam would place bets on the horses for him, as Dad was unable to write a slip, nor comprehend form.

▪ A trader placed bets in the markets on behalf of Salomon Brothers.

▪ The only way you can place a cash bet is with a bookmaker on Saturday.

▪ With our last two food dollars he placed still another bet and lost.

▪ Like every shrewd politician, Michael Heseltine has placed a two-way bet.

▪ He dialed what I gathered to be his bookie and placed two bets of five pounds each on horses racing that day.

blame

▪ Do not place the blame anywhere but on yourself, because you alone have chosen that path.

▪ He placed the blame on the type of lens usually employed by portraitists, recommending instead those used for landscape.

▪ We must be careful not to place the entire blame upon the amateur historians in Britain's police force.

▪ When he arrived, he placed no blame on us, but rather on the way we were going about our business.

▪ But Bradley will not place blame.

▪ A subsequent military investigation placed the blame squarely on city officials.

▪ This will often happen when counsellees have placed blame on other people and not looked at their own contribution to their problems.

▪ Enough shrewdness and sense of dignity belonged to her that she made no mistake about where to place the blame.

burden

▪ This is not intended to place a greater burden on recognised bodies than on traditional practices.

▪ The cost of these programs places a heavy burden on those who work.

▪ An alternative strategy for the government in these circumstances was to place the burden of financing social provision upon local government.

▪ Short runs just placed a greater burden on employees.

▪ It was thought fair to avoid placing too frequent a burden on places like Belfast.

▪ Diplomatically, he placed the burden of responsibility on the state officials, calling upon them to find solutions.

▪ Chancellor Kohl has placed the heaviest burden of paying for unification on the average wage-earner.

▪ They say such a requirement would place an unfair burden on them.

child

▪ In those days I was quickly incensed about the demands placed on children.

▪ However, I am wary of placing excessive pressure on children and teachers where there are behavioural difficulties or deprivation.

▪ Such cases of organised abuse may place great demands upon child protection agencies, in terms of both overall resources and special practice requirements.

▪ A poor match of work to ability can place children in no win situations.

context

▪ All the topics covered would have to be placed in context but there would be no, say, comparative studies.

▪ And recording artists are being placed in that same context.

▪ To explain the difference between the two structures, they are placed in a realistic context.

▪ This is essential reading for those seeking to place this horror in context and to understand its true meaning.

▪ Statements of harmony, as with statements of conflict, have to be placed in their context.

▪ An activated word might be defined as any word placed in a context such that it takes on emotional intensity.

▪ But their details are often still controversial and their meaning can only be appreciated by placing them in context.

▪ Even so, it has to be placed in context.

emphasis

▪ As a consequence he placed considerable emphasis in meeting the deadline for the submission of the self-assessment document.

▪ Many school-to-work programs place a strong emphasis on SCANS-type competencies.

▪ Like Degas, the heir in this respect of Ingres, he placed great emphasis on drawing.

▪ In fact, these words break the sentence rhythm, placing emphasis on the words that follow.

▪ From the start, Copyrights placed the emphasis on the international market and, instead of using sub-agents, opened its own offices.

▪ For example, some employers may pay well above the industry, while placing minimal emphasis on the benefits as a result.

▪ He placed the emphasis on high street fashion.

▪ Officials are placing more emphasis on making streets attractive and on mass transportation.

foot

▪ Subtleties in the texture of the grit, patches brushed clean of lichen, told him where to place his feet.

▪ But it can not all be placed at the feet of the networks.

▪ For a moment he was held, and then he was ceremoniously placed at the feet of the Prime Minister.

▪ On gentle slopes it's easy to place the foot with the sole flat; your bodyweight will then secure the points.

▪ As he reached for the phone, he realized what he was doing-he was placing his foot squarely in a bear trap.

▪ Taking great care where she placed her feet, she trod softly down the stairs.

▪ Then again, why not place my foot in the step of the guy ahead of me?

hand

▪ Squeezing To boost circulation in the thighs and calves, place your hands on the skin, fingers pointing away from you.

▪ She places her hands on my cheeks and stares into my eyes.

▪ Laura placed her hands on his thighs to still him.

▪ I nearly dropped it when I felt it being placed in my hand.

▪ Rising slowly to his feet, he placed both hands on the table and leaned forward to face Jonadab.

▪ You come back and place your hands on various people's foreheads until eventually you say the right number.

▪ Starting from the middle of the back, place your hands side by side horizontally across the spine.

▪ I placed my hand on the top of the skull and waited.

importance

▪ Besides, a refusal would seem as if she placed too much importance on an accepted practice.

▪ But the current penchant for mixing styles has placed new importance on that special little table with an individual personality.

▪ Or by placing it third in importance of equipment?

▪ Co., said the measure places too much importance on whether buyers or sellers initiate transactions.

▪ Business courses place an importance on creative thought because it is new ideas which keep a business ahead of its competition.

▪ They place great importance on concrete feedback on how well they are doing.

▪ Resource-based learning has placed greater importance on learning how to learn and the handling of information.

▪ People who place great importance on the goals of autonomy, creativity and growth will have no difficulty in filling the paper.

limit

▪ This places an upper limit on our lifespan.

▪ If your child crosses that line, you need to place strict limits on his behavior.

▪ An investor can wait for a transaction to match their order by placing it within the limit order system.

▪ Critics charge the bills would cut legal immigration by 20 to 40 percent by placing new limits on all categories of entrants.

▪ Of course applicants may continue to have advice and representation of their choice; we place no limit on either.

▪ Since then, more funds have begun using the word duration in their names, and placing duration limits in prospectuses.

▪ The mutation rate is bound to place an upper limit on the rate at which evolution can proceed.

▪ You may want to place a limit on how much one partner can handle without consulting the other.

order

▪ To find out more or to place an order, return the coupon or ring the number below.

▪ Investors and traders who had expected the dollar to fall had placed the orders to limit their losses.

▪ Last summer he was placed under a supervision order after being found guilty of burglary, armed robbery and car theft.

▪ And with it an advertisement for life insurance, plus a little card I could fill out to place my order.

▪ So we urge you now to place your order by post or by phone.

▪ Edna was placing the kitchen in order.

▪ After you have placed your first order, further half-litres come willy-nilly and are put in front of you, until you decline.

position

▪ The picture will only appear if it's placed in the correct position.

▪ As the plane circled in search of Dee Zed, the jump team was placed in position.

▪ Then simply place the blocks in position, edge to edge according to your design.

▪ The body of Blessed Eustochia Calafato was also placed in that same position one hundred fifty years after her death.

▪ The best policy is to try not to be placed in a position where you risk serious criticism on account of your behaviour.

▪ Fire Precautions Instructions about what to do in case of fire are placed in prominent positions throughout your place of work.

▪ Open out the pattern and place it in position at the window to check its proportions.

▪ Often the squares are placed in a central position and enclose a figured medallion.

premium

▪ Up and down hill fences pose problems for the horse by placing a premium on balance and impulsion.

▪ When the top leader places that kind of premium on seamless communication and openness, it sets the tone for everyone.

▪ Both personally, and in his political philosophy, Hobbes placed a high premium on peace and stability.

▪ Barbara, as usual, seemed to be placing a premium on maintaining her composure.

▪ This now places the highest premium on the individual player as the element most likely to win the tournament.

probation

▪ When he was at Montclair Prep, rules violations resulted in the entire athletic program being placed on probation.

▪ Today he was placed on probation for two years.

▪ Gary DeHart, two-time series champion Terry Labonte's crew chief, also was fined and placed on probation in Daytona.

▪ Anthony Ganguly continued the deception when he appeared before Teesside magistrates and was placed on probation.

▪ Most of those were placed on probation and continued to practice while they completed therapy themselves.

▪ Whereas conventional criminals lack the wherewithal to pay for being placed on probation, no such inability is true for corporations.

▪ Channell and Miller pleaded guilty to a single felony and were placed on probation for two years.

record

▪ I place on record appreciation to David Blackmore and his staff for all their efforts in addressing these problems.

▪ She placed the record on the turntable and the muted trumpet of Jonah Jones softly assailed the room.

▪ I am merely placing on record, as precisely as possible, the conditions that determined the starting-point of our inquiry.

▪ That she kept screaming these exact words and weeping had been placed on her record as the manifestation of a childhood delusion.

▪ I also place it on record that I very much welcomed the Minister's attitude in Committee.

▪ Cork, wish to place on record our disgust and concern at the continuing objection to the establishment of this plant.

▪ I wish to place on record my party's stance and my personal stance on the reprocessing of nuclear material at Dounreay.

reliance

▪ There is a danger in placing over-much reliance on the Attorney's discretion.

▪ As a general warning vendors should not place too much reliance on employment cases.

▪ He also learned not to place too much reliance on his senses and feelings.

▪ Conversely, of course, those who have little in common have to place greater reliance on the language.

▪ You will also need to take up references, though do not place too much reliance on these.

▪ If he placed no reliance at all upon it, he can not complain of a misrepresentation.

▪ He said he placed little or no reliance on either of them as to what happened.

▪ However, it is wrong to place total reliance on guidebook descriptions.

restriction

▪ In response the authorities had to place restrictions on capital imports. 6.

▪ To do this it will be necessary to place some further restrictions on the model.

▪ All but one of those released have been placed under heavy restriction orders.

▪ Environmental lawyers warned that this ruling would place severe restrictions on future law suits.

▪ Not withstanding his attempts to appease conservative critics, Mr Frohnmayer's aversion to placing any restrictions on artistic freedom was increasingly apparent.

▪ The papacy, to maintain orthodoxy, placed restrictions on which universities could teach theology.

▪ Few insurers place any restrictions on young people using an organ.

side

▪ Two canvas chairs were placed side by side in a machine that begged comparison with the Wright brothers' first efforts.

▪ After this solemn function, the body was placed above a side altar in a crystal urn.

▪ The pulpit, instead of being central, was placed to the right-hand side, looking from the back pews.

▪ A baseline graph actually consists of two graphs placed side by side.

▪ On entering the office I saw that Donald had placed two hard chairs side by side facing his desk.

▪ As one song bounced quickly to another, the words flashed on to two large screens placed on either side of the stage.

▪ All the living and bedrooms are placed on the south side, facilitating the effective area of plain wall on the north.

▪ To serve, place squab on one side of the plate.

strain

▪ The fact that an increasing number of women want paid employment has also placed further strain on caring arrangements.

▪ Occupational therapists also can modify items to make it possible to use them without placing a strain on arthritic joints.

▪ To accept them all would place an intolerable strain on her health, but she rarely fails to help a charity.

▪ The rapidly increasing urban population has placed an impossible strain on the provision of housing.

▪ Advances in commerce and the use of money were placing great strains on the rice-based economy.

▪ Though his extravagance was well rewarded, it must have placed a severe strain on the house's finances.

▪ The arms are straight, placing the strain on the larger groups of shoulder and back muscles.

▪ But it was the gruelling work schedule Kylie was now working which placed the greatest strain according to friends.

trust

▪ Now investors place less trust in liquidity and more in their own judgment about a security's risks and potential return.

▪ These bonds were placed in a trust.

▪ You are placing a trust in others that in various ways indicates that you have confidence in how they will perform.

▪ I place my trust in Neil.

▪ Joseph only had the word of Mary; and upon that word he had to place his trust and accept his fate.

▪ We had placed our trust in the Tet cease-fire, which the Vietcong had publicly requested.

▪ He must place his trust in the Prime Mover.

▪ I suppose that I must place my trust in you.

value

▪ We will encourage changes to the education system which place a positive value on a pluralist, diverse and multicultural society.

▪ To place a monetary value on the prevention of an epidemic is largely conjectural.

▪ This is partly due to parents not placing high value on a daughter's education.

▪ The other spouse may place a greater value on economic safety and security, Boone said.

▪ This second position places high value on equality of conditions-adding social and economic equality to legal equality.

▪ The students in the above study had parents who placed a high value on education.

▪ Analysts said it was difficult to place a value on the spinoff because Payless' capitalization was unknown.