Pronunciation Noun
position (plural positions)
- 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.
- (team sports) 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!
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm
or institution. - (finance) 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.wikipedia Position (finance)
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- French: position
- German: Stellung, Position
- Italian: posizione
- Portuguese: posição
- Russian: положе́ние
- Spanish: posición
- French: poste
- German: Arbeitsplatz, Stelle
- Italian: posto
- Portuguese: cargo
- Russian: до́лжность
- Spanish: puesto
- Portuguese: posição
position (positions, present participle positioning; past and past participle positioned)
- To put into place.
- 26 June 2012, Simon Bowers in The Guardian, Tax crackdowns threaten Channel Islands' haven status
- 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.
- 26 June 2012, Simon Bowers in The Guardian, Tax crackdowns threaten Channel Islands' haven status
- stell (obsolete)
- German: positionieren, postieren
- Italian: piazzare, posizionare
- Portuguese: posicionar
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