Position

Noun
(abbreviated as posish)


 * 1) A place or location.
 * 2) A post of employment; a job.
 * 3) A status or rank.
 * Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
 * 1) An opinion, stand, or stance.
 * My position on this issue is unchanged.
 * 1) A posture.
 * Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
 * 1)  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!
 * 1)  An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
 * Strong earnings have bolstered the company's financial position.

Derived terms

 * anatomical position
 * assume the position
 * body position
 * bubble position
 * closed position
 * cowgirl position
 * developmental position
 * eccentric position
 * emergency position indicating radio beacon
 * fetal position
 * fielding position
 * Fowler's position
 * hinge position
 * human position
 * lithotomy position
 * long position
 * lotus position
 * midsinoary position
 * naked position
 * net position
 * neutral position
 * occlusal position
 * open position


 * overnight position
 * pole position
 * positional
 * position effect
 * position limit
 * position paper
 * position sense
 * position trader
 * position trading
 * preferred position
 * prone position
 * protrusive position
 * qualifying position
 * recovery position
 * reposition
 * sacroanterior position
 * sex position
 * short position
 * Sims' position
 * statutory position
 * take a position
 * Trendelenburg position
 * Yoga position

Related terms

 * ponent
 * pose
 * posit
 * positive
 * positional

Verb

 * 1) To put into place.

Adjectives for Position
absurd; admirable; advantageous; alphabetical; altered; ambiguous; amiable; angular; anomalous; arduous; anonymous; argumentative; artistic; aristocratic; asinine; attributive; awkward; belligerent; brilliant; broad; choice; commanding; compensating; conducive; competitive; conspicuous; consular; contrasting; coveted; creditable; defensive; cramped; crouching; dangerous; definite; degraded; delicate; deplorable; dependent; desirable; desperate; despondent; desultory; detestable; dignified; different; disagreeable; dreadful; dominant; ecclesiastical; elevated; embarrassing; eminent; enviable; envious; erroneous; essential; exalted; exasperating; executive; exposed; extraordinary;  fatiguing;  fiscal; formidable; fortified; genial; geographical; grand;  gratifying;   grotesque;   handy; hardy; hated; homeless; honorable; idiotic; ignominious; illustrious; imperial; important; impoverished; impregnable; inartistic; insignificant; indefensible; insular; intact; intellectual; interesting; intermediate; irksome; irretrievable; isolated; legal; lucrative; literary;  lofty;  long-continued; lower; luxurious; masked; mercurial; military; modest; natural-minded; obscure; oceanic; odious; official; opposite; painful; peculiar; perilous; permanent; perplexing; picturesque; pivotal; poised; precarious; precise; premier; prominent; reclining; recognized; ,reconnoitered; recumbent; relative; relaxed; remarkable; resolute; respectable; responsible; risky; retired; secluded; semi-reclining; serious; shifting; social; solid;  stationary;   sophisticated;   static; strained; strong; strategic; subordinate; subservient; substantial; superfluous; supreme; tedious; technical; tenable; theological; theoretical; thoughtful; threatening; transitional; unambitious; unassailable; uncivil; uncomfortable; unconscious; unendurable; undistinguishable; unequivocal; unfashionable; unfavorable; unique; unlovely, unquestioned; unrivaled; unsupported; unstable;  untenable;  unworthy;  virulent; weak;  wicked;   worldly;   worth-while; wretched.

Verbs for Position
acquire—; alter—; aspire to—; challenge—; check—; clarify—; complicate—; compromise—; consolidate— damage—; defend—; demote—; dignify—  elevate to—; indi¬cate—; jeopardize—  jockey for—; justi¬fy—; maintain—; maneuvre for—; regain —; reiterate—; restore—; resume—; retain—; shift—; solidify—; struggle for—; surrender—; survey—; usurp—; wrest — from; —attracts; —reimburses

Thesaurus
Anschauung, Parthian shot, a priori principle, abode, address, affect, affectivity, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, allocate, angle, angle of vision, announcement, annunciation, answer, apostrophe, appointment, apriorism, area, arrange, arrangement, aspect, assertion, asseveration, assign, assumed position, assumption, attitude, autarky, averment, avouchment, avowal, axiom, azimuth, basis, bearing, bearings, belief, bench mark, bent, berth, billet, bimetallism, blood, bracket, branch, cachet, capacity, case, caste, categorical proposition, category, celestial navigation, character, circumstance, circumstances, clan, class, climate of opinion, collocate, color, comment, common belief, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, condition, connection, consensus gentium, consequence, consideration, contention, crack, creed, data, dead reckoning, declaration, deploy, determine, dictum, dignity, disposal, dispose, disposition, district, division, duty, echelon, economic self-sufficiency, emotion, emotivity, emplace, emplacement, employment, engagement, enunciation, establish, estate, estimate, estimation, ethos, exclamation, exposure, expression, eye, face, feeling, feeling tone, first principles, fix, footing, foundation, frame of reference, framework, free enterprise, free trade, frontage, function, general belief, get a fix, gig, governmentalism, grade, greeting, ground, group, grouping, head, heading, hierarchy, high place, hole, home in on, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, idea, importance, impression, inclination, incumbency, install, interjection, ipse dixit, jam, job, judgment, kin, kudos, label, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, latitude and longitude, lay, leaning, lemma, level, lie, lieu, light, lights, line, line of position, locale, localism, locality, localize, locate, location, locus, lot, major premise, managed currency, manifesto, mental attitude, mental outlook, mention, mind, minor premise, modality, mode, moonlighting, mystique, navigate, noninterference, nonintervention, note, notion, nullification, observation, occupation, office, opening, opinion, order, orientation, outlook, part, party line, party principle, pass, personal judgment, philosopheme, philosophical proposition, phrase, pickle, pigeonhole, pilotage, pin down, pinpoint, place, placement, placing, planned economy, plight, point, point of view, policy, polity, popular belief, pose, position, position line, position paper, positive declaration, post, postulate, postulation, postulatum, posture, power structure, precedence, predicament, predicate, predication, premise, prestige, presumption, presupposition, prevailing belief, price supports, principle, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, proposition, propositional function, protection, protectionism, protest, protestation, province, psychology, public belief, public opinion, public policy, pump-priming, put, put in place, quality, question, race, radio bearing, rank, rate, rating, reaction, reference system, reflection, regard, region, relation, remark, respect, role, rubric, say, say-so, saying, second job, section, sectionalism, sentence, sentiment, sept, service, set, settle, side, sight, site, situate, situation, situs, slant, sphere, spot, stage, stance, stand, standing, standpoint, state, statement, station, stature, status, stead, strain, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, subjoinder, suborder, sumption, supposal, system, tenure, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, thought, title, triangulate, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, universe, utterance, vacancy, view, viewpoint, vouch, way of thinking, where, whereabout, whereabouts, word, zero in on

Etymology
From position: <  positio: < ponere:, past participle positus:; see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.

Noun

 * Arabic: موقف, موقع
 * Armenian: դիրք
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 位置
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: støða
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (thési)
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 位置
 * Korean: 지위
 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:, plassering
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, позиция
 * Serbo-Croatian: pozicija, položaj, lokacija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Arabic: مکانة, رتبة
 * Armenian: դիրք
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: (thési)
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian: poziţie
 * Russian: положение
 * Serbo-Croatian: pozicija, položaj, plasman
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Italian:


 * Russian: должность
 * Serbo-Croatian: pozicija, položaj


 * Arabic:  ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: (thési)


 * Italian:
 * Polish: stanowisko
 * Russian: позиция
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: ,    ,
 * Estonian: asend
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek: (thési)
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: положение, позиция
 * Serbo-Croatian: pozicija, položaj, postura
 * Swedish:


 * Serbo-Croatian: pozicija


 * Swedish:


 * : pozicio
 * : poziciono
 * : position
 * : posizione


 * : poziţie
 * : posición

Verb

 * Finnish:, ,
 * German: positionieren
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,


 * Norwegian: posisjonere, plassere
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian: pozicionirati, smjestiti, položiti
 * Swedish: placera, placera ut

Noun
position



Noun

 * 1) position

Noun

 * 1) a place, a location, a position. A description of where something is located with respect to the surroundings, e.g. the satellites of the GPS system.
 * 2) (In team sports) a place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.

Related terms

 * positionera