置く: meaning, reading and conjugation

Meaning

1. to put, place
2. to leave behind
3. to establish (an organization, facility, position, etc.), set up
4. to appoint someone to a certain position, hire, employ
5. to place one's trust or faith, bear in mind
6. to put down a tool (e.g. a pen), thereby stopping what one is doing with it
7. to take in boarders, etc., provide lodging in one's house
8. to separate spatially or temporally
9. to do something in advance (after the -te form of a verb)
10. to leave something in a certain state, keep something in a certain state (after the -te form of a verb)