The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LOCALE
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More clues leading to the result LOCALE
- See cold drink offered by venue
- Place sounds suitable for those watching their weight
- Supposedly diet-enhancing drug causes a scene
- Pub gets final place setting
- Setting for pub: middle of field
- Site offering drug intended for those trying to lose weight?
- Pass up beer in place
- Spot sweetheart on American diet?
- See, for starters, clues assassin left behind at edge of crime scene
- Pub’s first of eight in immediate area
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What does LOCALE mean?
LOCALE noun- The place where something happens.
- The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
- A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)