Other forms: placements
A placement is a stretch of real work you do as part of a course of study. Six months at an engineering firm in your third year; a term on a hospital ward; a trainee teacher in front of a class with a mentor at the back.
You apply for a placement, go on one, and someone writes a report at the end. The American word for the same thing is internship. Placement also means the plain act of putting something somewhere, and the position it ends up in: the placement of the furniture, the placement of a comma. In advertising, product placement is paying to have your drink sitting on the table in a film. In social work, a placement is the family or home a child is sent to live with. Behind all of it is the verb place.
1nounplacementA period of work or training that forms part of a course of study.~27%
“She spent her placement at a law firm in Leeds.”
2nounactThe act of putting something in a particular position, or the position chosen.~53%
“The placement of the speakers changed the sound of the whole room.”
3nounarrangementAn arrangement by which someone is found a home, a school or a job.~7%
“The council found a placement for the boy with a foster family.”
4nounpaidThe paid appearance of a product inside a film, programme or game.~13%
“The car's placement in the opening scene cost the maker a fortune.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 18 sentences found in the wild and placed 15 of them on a sense (3 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
From place + -ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA