placement

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   contact established between applicants and prospective employees

   the agency provided placement services

2. 2
   noun

   A location or position.

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

3. 3
   noun

   The act of matching a person with a job.

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

4. 4
   noun

   A temporary posting of a person to a particular workplace to enable them to gain work experience.

   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. 5
   noun

   the act of putting something in a certain place

6. 6
   noun

   the spatial property of the way in which something is placed

7. 7
   noun

   The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

From place + -ment.