different between placement vs ranking

English

Etymology

From place +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ple?sm?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?sm?nt

Noun

placement (countable and uncountable, plural placements)

1. The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
2. A location or position.

   It seems to me that the placement of that poster could be better.

3. The act of matching a person with a job

   The agency does not guarantee placement, but they work on commission.

4. (Britain) A temporary posting of a person to a particular workplace to enable them to gain work experience.

Derived terms

• job placement
• product placement

Translations

French

Etymology

From placer +? -ment.

Noun

placement m (plural placements)

1. placement

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “placement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Paronyms

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ænk.??/
• Rhymes: -ænk??

Verb

ranking

1. present participle of rank

Adjective

ranking (comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)

1. (in combination) Having a specified rank.
2. Superior in rank.
   • 2002, Stephen Tanner, Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban, page 176

     Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated—at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.

Translations

Noun

ranking (plural rankings)

1. One’s relative placement in a list.

Descendants

Translations

Anagrams

• narking

Polish

Etymology

From English ranking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ran.k?ink/

Noun

ranking m inan

1. ranking

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) rankingowy

Further reading

• ranking in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ranking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranking.

Noun

ranking m (plural rankings)

1. ranking

   Synonym: clasificación