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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
placement
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
product placement
work experience placement/programme/scheme etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
educational
▪ Alternatively, it may be because particular educational placements have very limited opportunities and few resources for this kind of activity.
foster
▪ Most of the young people had suffered several foster placement breakdowns, and some had been in trouble with the law.
▪ It performs important functions in times of crisis, both when children enter care and when foster placements break down.
▪ Long-term foster placements may turn into defacto or, eventually, legal adoptions.
▪ They wanted to continue the foster placement.
▪ However, when a particularly successful foster placement led to the girl's adoption the girl changed considerably.
industrial
▪ Students who do not undertake the period of industrial placement complete the degree in three years.
▪ Through contacts made during their industrial placement, many graduates subsequently obtain permanent employment.
▪ Many graduates and diplomates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement.
▪ Colleges were experiencing great difficulty in finding industrial placements for students.
▪ Students who undertake the four-year sandwich course spend the third year in industrial placement.
▪ The course is of three years' duration, including an industrial placement year.
private
▪ Eurobonds may either be public issues or private placements - issues sold direct to investors and not traded.
▪ The group proposed to sell the other third in a private placement.
▪ Other private placements are designed mainly for issuers, often to exploit tax loopholes.
▪ On July 20, 1999 Verio completed the private placement of $ 360 million of convertible preferred stock.
▪ Low liquidity for publicly issued eurobonds is one feature underlying development of international private placements.
▪ Employment opportunities should be better in private placement firms than in State job service centers.
▪ The private placement industry is competitive, so counselors feel pressed to give their client companies the best service.
■ NOUN
job
▪ For some students also specialising in Business Studies, there is the possibility of a job placement in commerce or industry.
▪ The Salomon compensation game, like the job placement game for trainees, has a political wild card in it.
▪ He presided over the job placement blackboard beside the trading floor.
▪ They set up job placement programs and mentoring initiatives for young men and women.
product
▪ What a sweet deal that is-the stars get to look caring in exchange for prime time product placement.
▪ Mine was to be a psyche available for product placement - that was his intention.
▪ It also makes good economic sense. Product placement deals in movies cost an estimated 10 per 1, 000 exposures.
▪ The Center for the Study of Commercialism considers product placement a deceitful form of advertising.
teacher
▪ The teacher placement organiser has a varied role within the partnership.
▪ The vision must be of a multi-lateral teacher placement programme between all community countries.
▪ Esso's links extend to teacher placements and pupil visits.
▪ In return for the teacher placement organiser's involvement there is full support from the rest of the partnership team.
▪ Being part of the partnership therefore gives the teacher placement organiser greater credibility.
▪ In Mid Glamorgan the teacher placement organiser is able to use the existing communication network to schools and business.
▪ In addition publications produced by the partnership, such as its newspaper, include articles on teacher placements.
▪ The Partnership has strong links with other organisations and the teacher placement organiser is able to take advantage of this.
work
▪ What opportunity should be open to full-tome students in terms of work placement or experience?
▪ The exchanges involved in-college tuition and work placements with local companies.
▪ The placements will be of four weeks duration: part college, part work placement.
▪ Students are invited to undertake a programme combining, concurrently, the traditional teaching practice with a social work placement.
▪ All the students are undertaking work placements in local businesses one day a week for 12 weeks.
▪ The final-year project is based on some aspect of the student's work placement.
▪ At the end of my work placement, I teamed up with two other volunteers for a three week holiday.
■ VERB
find
▪ The Enterprise Centre will find suitable placements or approve students' own choice.
▪ City records show that jailers made three attempts to find other placements, and then the matter apparently was forgotten.
▪ It was found that decisions about placements were often long delayed while efforts were made to solve the family's problems.
▪ Colleges were experiencing great difficulty in finding industrial placements for students.
train
▪ Spending more on training and placement normally saves money on welfare grants.
▪ But when times get tight, states cut their training and placement accounts.
▪ The governor wants more job training and placement and less aid to those who refuse to work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ job placement services
▪ The placement of the buttons and knobs in the car is well thought out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And so John was sent to his first placement, Boys' Ranch.
▪ Bankers dislike the idea of dribbling out the shares throughout the year or holding lots of small placements.
▪ City records show that jailers made three attempts to find other placements, and then the matter apparently was forgotten.
▪ Many courses require that some kind of placement project is undertaken by the student.
▪ Next year, they plan to expand the placement of their ads to more bars and restaurants in the Baltimore community.
▪ The Salomon compensation game, like the job placement game for trainees, has a political wild card in it.
▪ Volume three of the DoH guidance, on family placements, set outs how local authorities should plan and review.
▪ We particularly need to improve the placement of our publicity material in tourist centres, including the development of hotel packs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Placement

Placement \Place"ment\, n. [Cf. F. placement.]

  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

  2. Position; place.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
placement

1835, from place (v.) + -ment.

Wiktionary
placement

n. 1 The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed. 2 A location or position. 3 The act of matching a person with a job

WordNet
placement
  1. n. the spatial property of the way in which something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs" [syn: arrangement]

  2. contact established between applicants and prospective employees; "the agency provided placement services"

  3. the act of putting something in a certain place or location [syn: location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement]

Wikipedia
Placement (EDA)

Placement is an essential step in electronic design automation - the portion of the physical design flow that assigns exact locations for various circuit components within the chip’s core area. An inferior placement assignment will not only affect the chip's performance but might also make it nonmanufacturable by producing excessive wirelength, which is beyond available routing resources. Consequently, a placer must perform the assignment while optimizing a number of objectives to ensure that a circuit meets its performance demands. Typical placement objectives include

  • Total wirelength: Minimizing the total wirelength, or the sum of the length of all the wires in the design, is the primary objective of most existing placers. This not only helps minimize chip size, and hence cost, but also minimizes power and delay, which are proportional to the wirelength (This assumes long wires have additional buffering inserted; all modern design flows do this.)
  • Timing: The clock cycle of a chip is determined by the delay of its longest path, usually referred to as the critical path. Given a performance specification, a placer must ensure that no path exists with delay exceeding the maximum specified delay.
  • Congestion: While it is necessary to minimize the total wirelength to meet the total routing resources, it is also necessary to meet the routing resources within various local regions of the chip’s core area. A congested region might lead to excessive routing detours, or make it impossible to complete all routes.
  • Power: Power minimization typically involves distributing the locations of cell components so as to reduce the overall power consumption, alleviate hot spots, and smooth temperature gradients.
  • A secondary objective is placement runtime minimization.
Placement

Placement may refer to:

  • Placement (EDA), an essential step in electronic design automation
  • Placement exam, determines which class a student should take
  • Favored placement, the practice of preferentially listing search engine results for given sites
  • Job placement, a short time spent in a company to get work experience
  • Private placement, a direct offering of securities to a limited number of sophisticated institutional investors
  • Product placement, a promotional tactic used by marketers in which a real commercial product is used in fictional or non-fictional media
  • Public placement, see Initial public offering

Usage examples of "placement".

Though Catholic adoption services took considerable care in the placement of children, they were not pointlessly slow and obstructive, as were public agencies, especially when the would-be adopters were solid members of the community like Hatch and Lindsey, and when the adoptee was a disabled child with no option except continued institutionalization.

Make-good-a fi-ee placement of an advertisement used to replace one that ran incorrectly, was unreadable or was placed at the wrong time.

Tram Bir, who was supervising the placement of the tents, stopped them and said something, jerking his thumb toward the caravan.

Once she was positioned to his liking, Kerian climbed onto the back of the drack, carefully avoiding any placement of his legs that would impede its wing movements, and motioned it to rise.

A Blood Eagle judged his placement, then stamped his hobnailed heel on the knife.

It offers production services but usually not media placement, marketing counsel or a full range of services.

JVlistress Leems fluttered around the great room, seeing to the placement of the silver tea service and trays of cakes and scones and clotted cream, as well as little pots of fruit conserve.

Our estimates, which are still being refined, are that this will require placement of forty warheads with an average yield of twenty megatons each over the entire earthward face of the asteroid.

The placement of brass trays on three-legged wooden stands, the handing round of minute glasses full of fiery liquor and delicate bowls of fruit-flavored sorbet, took what seemed to Gill an inordinately long time while Hafiz and Rafik chatted of trivialities.

Caitlin touched the edges of the septal defect, searching for sites where placement of tiny stitches might be problematic, she found none, none.

Or, when Thorling reached the stage, in another five years, of graduating high-school students, these would be accepted by standard colleges and universities, subject only to the usual entrance examinations and placement tests.

The latter had a friend who was a sergeant in a regiment recently transferred from Vannes and was hoping to get some information from him regarding the prisoners and their placement.

He wandered off then, shouting at one of the thanes who had mismeasured the placement of a hazel-rod.

For a more precise placement of these three human fossils, one can only rely upon, at the present time, their own morphological features in comparison with other better-dated finds elsewhere in China.

She rushes back upstairs and dresses faster than she ever has before--donning pantalettes, camisole, dress, coatee, stockings, garters, shoes, gloves and bonnet in much the same time that Lady Bridgelow might deliberate over the placement of a single hairpin.