on premises

phrase

: 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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Nvidia remains the baseline across clouds and on premises. Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026 Where most resorts chose to hand this task over to the team at reception, Hillside dedicated an entire department to it, becoming the first family resort in Turkey with a full guest relations office on premises. Katharina Kotrba, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025 Again, that’s only on the top four CSPs, not to mention the enterprise companies building on premises data centers. CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025 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. ArsTechnica, 26 June 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 26 Jul. 2026.

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