Meaning of site In English

• 0 a place where something is, was, or will be built, or where something happened, is happening, or will happen:

  • a building site

  • The company hasn't yet chosen the site for the new hospital.

  • This is the site of the accident.

  • There are two restaurants on site.

  • The office complex has an on-site nursery.

  • The next time the meeting had to be held off site.

  • It is more difficult to manage off-site employees.

• 1 a website

• 2 the piece of ground on which you can put up a tent, park a caravan, etc.:

  • We chose a large, level site for our tent.

• 3 to exist or be built in a particular place:

  • The company's head office is sited in Rome.

• 4 a place where something is, was, or will be:

  • The fort is now a historic site.

  • The fan club has its own Web site.

• 5 a place on the internet where a person, company, or organization can give information about their products or services:

  • The student activities page is the most viewed page on the college's site.

  • eBay was founded as the first internet auction site in 1995.

  • access/search/visit a site

  • build/create/design a site

  • host/set up a site

• 6 an area of land or place where a particular business, industrial, manufacturing, etc. activity happens or is planned to happen:

  • The plant sits on a 37-acre site in a field off a rural road.

  • We provide generators and small natural-gas compressors for drilling sites.

  • Plans by a private property company to build offices on a prime site in Kensington face rejection by local councillors.

  • This is the proposed site for the gasworks.

  • a building/construction site

• 7 to build something in a particular place:

  • be sited The wind turbines would be sited about 20 miles offshore.

  • The rail company does not need planning permission to erect the communications masts as long as they are sited on railway land.

  • Siting landfills has become more difficult as public awareness grows.