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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To meet that need, the Institute deployed the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and Dell PowerEdge XE-Series servers on premises. — Hayley Tabor, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 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 Perkins has written books on premises security, security procedures and crowd management and has decades of experience. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 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 5 Aug. 2026.

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