View synonyms for in place

in place

In the appropriate or usual position or order. For example, With everything in place, she started the slide show . [Mid-1500s] Also see put someone in his or her place .
In the same spot, without advancing or retreating, as in While marching in place, the band played six more numbers .

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Mrs. Wood was diving into a partly shut-in place, where it was not so light, and where the nests were.

Just back of the peak is a kind of soft, dented-in place like a Parker House roll, and if you touch it we die.

There I saw a fenced-in place, where some horses were grazing, without thinking of any harm.

This location is marked today by a permanent “in-place” exhibit on the shore near the old church tower.

Such things as that meeting did not happen to them of the In-Place unless for a purpose.

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