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Position
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- 1 A place or location.
"Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed."
- 2 the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom wordnet
- 3 A post of employment; a job.
- 4 a job in an organization wordnet
- 5 A status or rank.
"Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army."
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- 6 the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another wordnet
- 7 An opinion, stand, or stance.
"My position on this issue is unchanged."
- 8 (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player wordnet
- 9 A posture.
"Stand in this position, with your arms at your side."
- 10 the act of putting something in a certain place wordnet
- 11 A situation suitable to perform some action. figuratively
"The school is not in a position to provide day-care after 4:00 pm."
- 12 the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated wordnet
- 13 A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
"Stop running all over the field and play your position!"
- 14 the arrangement of the body and its limbs wordnet
- 15 An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
"long position"
- 16 a rationalized mental attitude wordnet
- 17 A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- 18 a way of regarding situations or topics etc. wordnet
- 19 A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- 20 an item on a list or in a sequence wordnet
- 21 The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- 22 an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute wordnet
- 23 The order in which players are seated around the table.
- 24 the particular portion of space occupied by something wordnet
- 25 A pin; a connector.
- 26 the appropriate or customary location wordnet
- 27 a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons wordnet
- 28 a condition or position in which you find yourself wordnet
- 29 the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society wordnet
- 1 To put into place.
"While other small nations with large banking sectors, such as Iceland and Ireland, have been undone by their reckless lending practices, the debt-free Channel Islands have always positioned themselves as dependable repositories of riches."
- 2 put into a certain place or abstract location wordnet
- 3 cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positiō (“a putting, position”), from positus (“placed, situated”), past participle of pōnō (“to place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.
From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positiō (“a putting, position”), from positus (“placed, situated”), past participle of pōnō (“to place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.
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