n. 25B6; noun
an ideal place for dinner : LOCATION, site, spot, setting, position, situation, area, region, locale; venue; technical locus.
foreign places : COUNTRY, state, area, region, town, city; locality, district; poetic/literary clime.
a place of her own : HOME, house, flat, apartment; accommodation, property, pied-à-terre; rooms, quarters; informal pad, digs; Brit. informal gaff; formal residence, abode, dwelling (place), domicile, habitation.
if I were in your place, I'd agree : SITUATION, position, circumstances; informal shoes.
a place was reserved for her : SEAT, chair, space.
I offered him a place in the company : JOB, position, post, appointment, situation, office; employment.
I know my place : STATUS, position, standing, rank, niche; dated estate, station.
it was not her place to sort it out : RESPONSIBILITY, duty, job, task, role, function, concern, affair, charge; right, privilege, prerogative.
25B6; verb
books were placed on the table : PUT (DOWN), set (down), lay, deposit, position, plant, rest, stand, station, situate, leave; informal stick, dump, bung, park, plonk, pop; N. Amer. informal plunk.
the trust you placed in me : PUT, lay, set, invest.
a survey placed the company sixth : RANK, order, grade, class, classify, categorize; put, set, assign.
Joe couldn't quite place her : IDENTIFY, recognize, remember, put a name to, pin down; locate, pinpoint.
we were placed with foster-parents : ACCOMMODATE, house; allocate, assign, appoint.
25A0; in place
the veil was held in place by pearls : IN POSITION, in situ.
the plans are in place : READY, set up, all set, established, arranged, in order.
25A0; in place of INSTEAD OF, rather than, as a substitute for, as a replacement for, in exchange for, in lieu of; in someone's stead.
25A0; out of place
she never had a hair out of place : OUT OF POSITION, out of order, in disarray, disarranged, in a mess, messy, topsy-turvy, muddled.
he said something out of place : INAPPROPRIATE, unsuitable, unseemly, improper, untoward, out of keeping, unbecoming, wrong.
she seemed out of place in a launderette : INCONGRUOUS, out of one's element, like a fish out of water; uncomfortable, uneasy.
25A0; put someone in their place HUMILIATE, take down a peg or two, deflate, crush, squash, humble; informal cut down to size, settle someone's hash; N. Amer. informal make someone eat crow.
25A0; take place HAPPEN, occur, come about, transpire, crop up, materialize, arise; N. Amer. informal go down; poetic/literary come to pass, befall, betide.
25A0; take the place of REPLACE, stand in for, substitute for, act for, fill in for, cover for, relieve.