position.
A place or location.
Meaning & usage
A place or location.
A post of employment; a job.
A status or rank.
Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
An opinion, stand, or stance.
My position on this issue is unchanged.
A posture.
Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
A situation suitable to perform some action.
The school is not a inposition to provide day-care after 4:00 pm.
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!
An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
long position
naked position
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.
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
The order in which players are seated around the table.
A pin; a connector.
Where this word comes from
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.
To put into place.
Where this word comes from
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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