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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as emplacement.

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Examples

  • It's early days in the experiment with open primaries - and such contests are certainly preferable to the implacement of Central Office Androids - but if the existing pattern (small sample size alert!) is repeated across the country we will end up with a parliament of doctors.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • It's early days in the experiment with open primaries - and such contests are certainly preferable to the implacement of Central Office Androids - but if the existing pattern (small sample size alert!) is repeated across the country we will end up with a parliament of doctors.

    A Parliament of Doctors 2009

  • And this differentiation occurs via its implacement into a specific situation or context vis-à-vis other things in an endless chain of mutually referring (and differing) correlative thing-events.

    Laughter 2009

  • Recently, I viewed a hospital bill for a non-complicated heart stent implacement for $130,000, which is what an uninsured/self insured person would be required to pay.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Huckabee vs. Moore: 2007

  • The average stint implacement costs about $25,000.

    CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2007 2007

  • Grant and Handelman argue that this relationship to the home is one of “implacement” — a term used to describe the ways that a person comes to understand themselves (as citizens, as parents, as children, etc.) but also their place in the larger community.

    How Your House Makes You Miserable Anne Helen Petersen 2023

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