phrasal
1. obsolete : on hand : present
beholding worldly wights in place, leave off their work … to gaze on them — Edmund Spenser
2. : in an original or proper place : in situ
a piece of jawbone with the teeth in place — R.W.Murray
kicked up his heels, a kind of shuffle dance in place — Eugene Walter
3. : in a suitable environment : appropriate
colonnaded mansions that would be more in place in Natchez — John Durant