placing
noun
[ ˈpleɪsɪŋ ]
• the action of putting something in position or the fact of being positioned.
• "the placing of the lights"
• a ranking one is given during or after a sports race or other competition.
• "the final placings saw them three points ahead"
• a post that is found for a job-seeker.
• a sale or new issue of a large quantity of shares.
place
verb
• put in a particular position.
• "a newspaper had been placed beside my plate"
Similar:
put down,
put,
set,
set down,
lay down,
deposit,
position,
plant,
rest,
stand,
sit,
settle,
station,
situate,
leave,
stow,
prop,
lean,
arrange,
set out,
array,
stick,
dump,
bung,
park,
plonk,
pop,
plunk,
• find a home or employment for.
• "the children were placed with foster-parents"
• identify or classify as being of a specified type or as holding a specified position in a sequence or hierarchy.
• "a survey placed the company 13th for achievement"
Similar:
rank,
order,
put in order,
grade,
group,
arrange,
sort,
class,
classify,
categorize,
put,
set,
assign,
• score (a goal) by a place kick.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, from an alteration of Latin platea ‘open space’, from Greek plateia (hodos) ‘broad (way)’.
