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Meanings of emplacement in English

Portuguese
colocação
Catalan
posició
Spanish
situación

The act of putting something in a certain place.

        colocação
        Usage of emplacement in English
        1
        I want to check your weapons control center, and every gun emplacement.
        The Universe — or Nothing
        2
        That working-party, filling sandbags just behind the machine-gun emplacement, are actually singing.
        All in It : K(1) Carries On
        3
        Here we are, sir, and he paused near a demolished gun emplacement.
        I Spy
        4
        There wasn't even a gun emplacement, which just struck me as dumb.
        Heaven's Queen
        5
        They showed us emplacement after emplacement without a stick of artillery in it.
        The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
        6
        The assaulters encircled the emplacement, but could not find the gun.
        A Handbook of the Boer War / With General Map of South Africa an...
        7
        The lines of hills were made for the emplacement of guns.
        The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
        8
        I repeat: first, the fire control center, then each gun emplacement.
        The Universe — or Nothing
        9
        The famous concrete emplacement at Maubeuge will serve as an instance.
        Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
        10
        To have this gun on the road meant making an emplacement there somehow.
        Bullets & Billets
        11
        The corporal slid into his rock emplacement, assault rifle in hand.
        Genellan: planetfall
        12
        A Zintani source said fighters of his unit saw planes bombing a Misrata emplacement.
        Reuters
        13
        Wherever she went, she could just look up and navigate by the gun emplacement.
        Coalition's End
        14
        In Deraa, two on a rooftop machinegun emplacement held their steel combat helmets casually.
        Reuters
        15
        Auckland's Bastion Point gun emplacement may be about to re-emerge as a tourist attraction.
        Radio NZ
        16
        There is a gun emplacement three miles down the beach.
        King Rat
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