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locate definition

lo·cate (lō′kāt′, lō kāt′)

transitive verb located -·cat′ed, locating -·cat′·ing

  1. to mark off or designate the site of (a mining claim, etc.)
  2. to establish in a certain place offices located downtown
  3. to discover the position of after a search to locate a lost object
  4. to show the position of to locate Guam on a map
  5. to assign to a particular place, function, occupation, etc.

Etymology: < L locatus, pp. of locare, to place < locus: see local

intransitive verb

☆ Informal to make one's home or headquarters; settle to locate in Boston

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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