location

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.

1. A particular point or place in physical space.

   “The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.”

2. An act of locating.

   “The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.”

3. An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.

   “It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]”

4. A leasing on rent.
5. A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
6. The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc
7. An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.