Definition of "in situ" []

• In the original position. (adverb)

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• "I went up to the tent door and looked in at the jumble of bedrolls and knapsacks and clothing, all abandoned in the scramble to locate the child and now compulsively preserved in situ by police custom."
• "But that's all just scene-setting for the big stuff, which is going to be filmed in situ next Saturday, when they re-enact the storming of Standingham Castle."
• "Top-secret documents brought to our side by General Hans Richter — second-in-command of the East German Department of Internal Security — when he defected to us in March of this year clearly state the agent's code name is "Our Friend," that he has been in situ for at least ten, probably fifteen years."