position

A place or location.

Noun

  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. - 1960 December 5, “Talking of Trains: Recording...

    Synonyms: stead

  2. A post of employment; a job.
  3. A status or rank.
    • Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
  4. An opinion, stand, or stance.
    • My position on this issue is unchanged.
    • The cause therfore of divorce expres’t in the position cannot but agree with that describ’d in the best and equalest sense of Moses Law. - 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
  5. A posture.
    • Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
  6. A situation suitable to perform some action.
    • The school is not in a position to provide day-care after 4:00 pm.
  7. 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!
  8. An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
    • long position
    • naked position
    • For example, at 50:1 leverage, if you're holding a $100,000 position in USD/CHF, you'll need to have at least $2,000 of available margin to hold the position ([$100,000 ÷ 100] × 0.50 = $500). - 2011, Brian Dolan,...
  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 price.
  10. A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
  11. The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
    • The following problem-like position occurred in an over-the-board game at a base in Korea: - 1953 May, Colonel A. S. Penniston, “Reader's Forum”, in Chess Review:
  12. The order in which players are seated around the table.

Origin

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.

Forms

positions

Hyponyms

anatomical position body position bubble position closed position code position cowgirl position developmental position eccentric position fetal position fielding position fifth position first position fourth position Fowler's position hinge position human position key position lithotomy position long position lotus position missionary position naked position net position neutral position

Related

ponent pose posish posit positional positive

Derived

adposition ambiposition bipositionality circumposition contraposition counterposition dextroposition extraposition foreposition geoposition infraposition juxtaposition juxta-position like-positioned malposition midposition misposition multiposition outposition paleoposition postposition preposition reposition retroposition

Verb

  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...

Forms

positions positioning positioned

Synonyms

stell adjust disrupt disturb move place position put relocate reposition set shift station transfer transpose

Hyponyms

align carry drag drift nudge order pin pull push slide sort