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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To put into place or position.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To place; locate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To assign a position to something, or to locate something at a particular place

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb provide a new emplacement for guns
  • verb put into place or position

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