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particular portion of space; any part of a body or surface; position or situation; region; building, location, residence, etc.; to put in a particular position or situation; to identify; to make (a bet, phone call, etc.)

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  • Substitute "debt" and you can see that, in the way we talk about it, debt is the same kind of placeless place.
  • What does it mean to be displaced but not placeless?
  • Continuous vaudeville, paceless and placeless, kept "uniform time."
  • Industrialism prescribes an economy that is placeless and displacing.
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