English Dictionary

in place

adv

(obsolete) To a particular place; so as to be present or nearby. / Into a proper or intended position; into place. / Into a state of deployment or implementation.

He put the book in place.

意味（1）

(obsolete) To a particular place; so as to be present or nearby.

意味（2）

Into a proper or intended position; into place.

The girders were carefully set in place.

意味（3）

Into a state of deployment or implementation.

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.

意味（4）

(chiefly Canada, US) Without changing position.

They ran in place with full packs for an hour.