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Site

//saɪt//

Definitions

1
The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
the site of a city or of a house
2
A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
a site for a church
3
The posture or position of a thing.

1
To situate or place a building or construction project.
The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.

Word Origin

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.

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