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how are you placed for...?

UK informal

Definition

used to ask someone if they have enough money, time, etc.: How are you placed for money? How are you placed for Tuesday night? (= Are you busy then?)Polite expressions
(Definition of how are you placed for...? from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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