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site

10 definitions • 24 examples
1
a place where something is, was, or will be built, or where something happened, is happening, or will happen:

Examples:

a building site
The company hasn't yet chosen the site for the new hospital.
This is the site of the accident.
2
inside a factory, office building, etc.:

Examples:

There are two restaurants on site.
The office complex has an on-site nursery.
3
away from a factory, office building, etc.:

Examples:

The next time the meeting had to be held off site.
It is more difficult to manage off-site employees.
4
5
the piece of ground on which you can put up a tent, park a caravan, etc.:

Examples:

We chose a large, level site for our tent.
6
to exist or be built in a particular place:

Examples:

The company's head office is sited in Rome.
7
a place where something is, was, or will be:

Examples:

The fort is now a historic site.
The fan club has its own Web site.
8
a place on the internet where a person, company, or organization can give information about their products or services:

Examples:

The student activities page is the most viewed page on the college's site.
eBay was founded as the first internet auction site in 1995.
host/set up a site
9
an area of land or place where a particular business, industrial, manufacturing, etc. activity happens or is planned to happen:

Examples:

The plant sits on a 37-acre site in a field off a rural road.
We provide generators and small natural-gas compressors for drilling sites.
Plans by a private property company to build offices on a prime site in Kensington face rejection by local councillors.
This is the proposed site for the gasworks.
10
to build something in a particular place:

Examples:

be sited The wind turbines would be sited about 20 miles offshore.
The rail company does not need planning permission to erect the communications masts as long as they are sited on railway land.
Siting landfills has become more difficult as public awareness grows.

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