1. A place or location.
2. the right or appropriate place: the bands are in position for the parade's start.
3. A strategic area occupied by members of a force: the troops took up positions along the river.
4. the way in which something is placed: the position of the clock's hands.
5. the arrangement of body parts; posture: a standing position.
6. an advantageous place or location: jockeys maneuvering for position.
7. A situation as it relates to the surrounding circumstances: in a position to bargain.
8. A point of view or attitude on a certain question: the mayor's position on taxes.
9. social standing or status; rank.
10. A post of employment; a job.
11. sports the area for which a particular player is responsible.
12. the arrangement of the pieces or cards at any particular time in a game such as chess, checkers, or bridge.
13. the act or process of positing.
14. A principle or proposition posited.
15. A commitment to buy or sell a given amount of securities or commodities.
16. the amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
17. the ownership status of a person's or institution's investments.
18. to put in place or position.
19. to determine the position of; locate.

1. A place or location.
2. A post of employment; a job.
3. A status or rank.
4. an opinion, stand, or stance.
5. A posture.
6. A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
7. an amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
8. to put into place.

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2. the state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition.
3. the spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation
4. hence: the ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis
5. relative place or standing; social or official rank; ; hence, office; post.
6. A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
7. to indicate the position of; to place.

1. to place with relation to other objects; set in a definite place.
2. the aggregate of spatial relations of a body or figure, considered as rigid, to other such bodies or figures; the definition of the place of a thing; situation.
3. hence status or standing; social rank or condition: as, social position; a man of position.
4. the act of positing or asserting; also, the assertion itself; affirmation; principle laid down.
5. A place occupied or to be occupied.
6. posture or manner of standing, sitting, or lying; attitude: as, an uneasy position.
7. place; proper or appropriate place: as, his lance was in position; specifically (military), the proper place to make or receive an attack.
8. in arithmetic, the act of assuming an approximate value for an unknown quantity, and thence determining that quantity by means of the data of a given question.
9. in logic, the laying down of a proposition, generally an arbitrary supposition; also, the proposition itself.
10. in ancient prosody, the situation of a vowel before two or more consonants or a double consonant, tending to retard utterance and consequently to lengthen the syllable; such combination of consonants, or the prosodic effect produced by it.
11. in obstetrics, the relation between the body of the fetus and the pelvis of the mother in any given presentation.
12. thesis, assertion, doctrine.
13. attitude, pose, etc. see posture.
14. specifically, in archery, the attitude or standing of an archer in the act of shooting.

1. the appropriate or customary location
2. cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
3. a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
4. (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
5. the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
6. a condition or position in which you find yourself
7. an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
8. put into a certain place or abstract location
9. a job in an organization
10. the act of putting something in a certain place
11. the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
12. the arrangement of the body and its limbs
13. a rationalized mental attitude
14. a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
15. the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
16. the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
17. the particular portion of space occupied by something
18. an item on a list or in a sequence