position
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
A place or location; A post of employment; a job; A status or rank
- plural
- positions
Meanings
- 1
A place or location
Put yourself in my position.
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All the players were in position.
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- 2
A post of employment; a job
- 3
A status or rank
- 4
An opinion, stand, or stance
- 5
A posture
- 6
A situation suitable to perform some action
- 7
A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a playerrare
- 8
An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institutionrare
- 9
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 pricerare
- 10
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and errorrare