placement

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English place

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Old French -mentbor.

Middle English -ment

English -ment

English placement

From place + -ment.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪ̯smənt/, [ˈpʰleɪ̯smn̩t]

  • Audio (US):

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    • (US, Canada, monopthongization) IPA^(key): /ˈpleːsmənt/, [ˈpʰleːsmn̩t]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈplæ̝ɪ̯smənt/, [ˈpʰlæ̝ɪ̯smn̩t]
• Rhymes: -eɪsmənt
• Hyphenation: place‧ment

Noun

placement (countable and uncountable, plural placements)

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.

   It seems to me that the placement of that poster could be better.

3. The act of matching a person with a job.

   The agency does not guarantee placement, but they work on commission.

4. (UK) A temporary posting of a person to a particular workplace to enable them to gain work experience.
   • 2021 May 19, Paul Stephen, “Our railway in RAIL's next 40 years: Amy McAllister”, in RAIL, number 931, page 36:

     During my first placement on Enabling Works on the Curzon Street Station site, I was able to visit the site on many occasions, which allowed me to gain a greater appreciation of the work that goes into a project of this scale.

5. (astrology) The zodiacal region of the sky in which the sun, moon, or a planet appears at the time and place of a person's birth.

Derived terms

• geoplacement
• job placement
• malplacement
• misplacement
• nonplacement
• outplacement
• overplacement
• placement test
• planet placement
• postplacement
• preplacement
• product placement
• underplacement
• work placement

Translations

the act of placing or putting in place — see also disposition,‎ positioning

• Arabic: وَضْع (ar) (waḍʕ)
• Bulgarian: слагане n (slagane), поставяне (bg) n (postavjane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放置 (zh) (fàngzhì), 安置 (zh) (ānzhì)

• Czech: pokládka m
• Finnish: sijoittaminen (fi), sijoitus (fi)
• French: placement (fr) m
• German: Platzierung f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: θέσις f (thésis)

• Hebrew: מיקום m (mikúm)
• Hungarian: helyezés (hu), elhelyezés (hu), besorolás (hu), (knowledge level assessment) szintfelmérés
• Italian: piazzamento (it) m, collocazione (it) f, collocamento (it) m
• Māori: whakatakotoranga, whakanohonga, whakanohoanga
• Portuguese: colocação (pt) f, posicionamento (pt) m
• Russian: размеще́ние (ru) n (razmeščénije)
• Slovak: umiestnenie n
• Spanish: colocación (es) f, emplazamiento (es) m
• Turkish: yerleştirme (tr)

a location or position — see also position

• Bulgarian: местоположение (bg) n (mestopoloženie)
• Finnish: sijoitus (fi), sijainti (fi)
• German: Platzierung f, Stelle (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: θέσις f (thésis)

• Hebrew: מיקום m (mikúm)
• Hungarian: elhelyezkedés (hu)
• Italian: posizionamento m, collocazione (it) f, collocamento (it) m
• Latvian: novietojums m
• Māori: whakatakotoranga
• Portuguese: posicionamento (pt) m
• Russian: расположе́ние (ru) n (raspoložénije)
• Spanish: colocación (es) f, emplazamiento (es) m

the act of matching a person with a job

• Bulgarian: назначение (bg) n (naznačenie)
• Finnish: työhönsijoitus
• German: Stellenvermittlung f
• Hungarian: állásközvetítés (hu)
• Malayalam: നിയമനം (ml) (niyamanaṁ)
• Russian: трудоустро́йство (ru) n (trudoustrójstvo)
• Turkish: iş bulma, işe yerleştirme

French

Etymology

From placer +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plas.mɑ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

placement m (plural placements)

1. placement
2. investment
   • (Can we date this quote?), Entreprises Intuit Canada ULC, Logiciel d’impôt en ligne TurboImpôt 2022-2023 | Produire votre déclaration en ligne‎^[1]:

     Placements et biens locatifs

     Investments and rental property

Derived terms

• placement de produit

Related terms

• déplacement
• emplacement
• fonds de placement

Descendants

• → Serbo-Croatian: plasman
• → Turkish: plasman

Further reading

• “placement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Paronyms

• classement
• pansement
• parsemant
• plissement