on premises
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: inside a building or on the area of land that it is on
Full meals are available at restaurant on premises.
No smoking on premises.
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Palo Alto continues to win business in both the cloud and on premises.
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Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025
There is a 10 p.m. curfew and no smoking on premises.
—Gerard S. Williams, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
At Lazard, Mottl says, the deep learning engineers do their experimentation on premises; that’s their sandbox.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2019
This data center is located on premises shared by IBM Research and IBM Germany.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025
There is a 10 p.m. curfew and no smoking on premises.
—Gerard S. Williams, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
At Lazard, Mottl says, the deep learning engineers do their experimentation on premises; that’s their sandbox.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2019
This data center is located on premises shared by IBM Research and IBM Germany.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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“On premises.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20premises. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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