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# placement

«placement» in Mova's school dictionary: **Putting something in a certain place or position: «the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a placement, placements)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Putting something in a certain place or position: «the placement of the furniture». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/#m1)

2) (UK, Ireland, Australia) A short job or training time in a workplace to get experience: «a work placement». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/#m2)

3) Finding a place for someone, like a school, job or home: «a school placement». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school: «placement test» decides the right class or level; older students do work placements. In maths and writing: «the placement of digits» (place value) and «placement of commas» affect the meaning. In everyday life: the placement of a smoke alarm matters for safety. Phrases: «work placement», «placement test», «product placement» (brands shown in films).

### examples

- The placement test showed which reading group I should join. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/#x1)
- My sister has a work placement at a vet's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/#x2)
- The placement of the smoke alarm is on the ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/#x3)
- Careful placement of the decimal point changes the number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/#x4)
- The placement of the plants by the window helps them grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/#x5)
- Product placement means films show brand names to advertise them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/#x6)
- The page numbers in the List of Illustrations do not reflect the new placement of the illustrations, but are as in the original. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/#x7)

### note

Countable. Verb: place; noun: placement. In maths the idea is «place value»: the placement of a digit gives its value (3 in 30 means thirty).

### In the corpora

- [Product placement is when companies pay to show their products in films and shows; it is advertising hidden in entertainment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/18/)
- [Product placement is when companies pay for their products to appear in films or shows; it is advertising hidden in entertainment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/20/)
- [A brand of soda in a film is often product placement: the company paid for it to be there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/8/)
- [Not every placement works.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/13/)
- [Some foster placements are short, some long-term, until the child grows up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/38/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «placement» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/placement/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.