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be well placed

To be in a good position or situation to do or have something. Because this store is on such a busy street, it's well placed to do a lot of business. As a friend of the dean, you're well placed to get a job at the school.
See also: place, well

be ideally placed

To be in an ideal position or situation to do or have something. Because this store is on such a busy street, it's ideally placed to do a lot of business. As a friend of the dean, you're ideally placed to get a job at the school.
See also: ideally, place

be better placed

To be in a better position or situation to do or have something. Now that this store has moved to such a busy street, it's better placed to do a lot of business. Do you think that a friend of the dean is better placed to get a job at the school than a regular applicant?
See also: better, place

be well, ideally, better, etc. placed for something/to do something


1 be in a good, ideal, etc. position or have a good, ideal, etc. opportunity to do something: Engineering graduates are well placed for a wide range of jobs. ♢ The company is now better placed to take advantage of the new legislation.
2 be situated in a pleasant or convenient place: The hotel is ideally placed for restaurants, bars and clubs.
See also: place, something
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Ideally guides such as The Metric Handbook, which this publication 'complements', should equally be revised without need for a separate Universal Design handbook.
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Ideally, weighing and recording would be automated but, however they're accomplished, they are crucial to monitoring recoveries and monitoring total metal costs.
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Ideally, physicians and other clinicians working in a health care organization will have access via their local area networks to high-speed (ISDN or DS-1) digital telephone connections to Internet service providers and the World Wide Web, with much faster data rates than they can obtain with modems over the plain, old telephone system (POTS).
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Ideally, similar amounts of capital should be invested in a diversified selection of undervalued, blue-chip stocks like Wal-Mart, PepsiCo or Southwestern Energy.
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Ideally, we would like to operate the DMA in the region where the modulus is invariant to frequency, in this case 1.
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The solution ideally is seamless and scalable, supporting continuous and unlimited growth and delivers very high availability and quality of service.
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Wayne Gretzky and the Kings agree that ideally he would remain in a Los Angeles uniform, but apparently the two sides have conflicting views on how best to build the team into a Stanley Cup contender.
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Ideally, molding sands discharged from a muller should have an equal composition.
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Ideally, at the start of a construction project, when stakeholders conduct a partnering workshop to establish mutual goals, consideration is given to preventing construction disputes.
Neutral party is needed to help resolve some partnering disputes
Ideally, the efficiencies of recombinant DNA technology will diminish the need for such pricing.
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Zetpol 1000L is said to be ideally suited for the gas and diesel fuel markets.
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