on premises
idiom
: 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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Administrators use BMCs to reinstall operating systems, install or modify apps and make configuration changes to large numbers of servers, without physically being on premises and, in many cases, without the servers being turned on.
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ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
Edge devices, located on premises close to the manufacturing equipment, support the IIoT in collecting and processing data close to the source.
—John Clemons, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Perkins has written books on premises security, security procedures and crowd management and has decades of experience.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
Its Couchbase Server can be deployed on premises or on any cloud.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 17 May 2025
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ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
Edge devices, located on premises close to the manufacturing equipment, support the IIoT in collecting and processing data close to the source.
—John Clemons, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Perkins has written books on premises security, security procedures and crowd management and has decades of experience.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
Its Couchbase Server can be deployed on premises or on any cloud.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 17 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for on premises
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“On premises.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20premises. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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