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RELATED WORDS : at a lower place at that place breathing place burying place eating place fall into place fictitious place first place gathering place hiding place holy place imaginary place in a higher place in the first place jumping off place jumping-off place landing place lurking place meeting place mythical place nesting place out of place place place bet place down place kick place mat place name place of birth place of business place of origin place of worship place setting place upright polling place pride of place resting place secret place stay in place stopping place take place taking place to a higher place to a lower place watering place

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial in place has 1 sense

• in place(r = adv.all) in situ - in the original or natural place or site; "carcinoma in situ"; "the archeologists left the pottery in place"

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in place

Situation

N situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude, footing, standing, standpoint, post, stage, aspect, attitude, posture, pose, environment, surroundings (location), circumjacence, place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts, ground, bearings, spot, topography, geography, chorography, map, situate, situated, local, topical, topographical, in situ, in loco, here and there, passim, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts, in place, here, there, in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage.

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