position

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English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈzɪʃ.(ə)n/
• (General American) enPR: pə-zĭshʹ(ə)n, IPA^(key): /pəˈzɪʃ.(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation (UK): po‧si‧tion, pos‧i‧tion, (US): po‧si‧tion

Noun

position (plural positions)

1. A place or location.

   Synonym: (obsolete) stead
2. A post of employment; a job.
3. A status or rank.

4. An opinion, stand, or stance.
5. A posture.

7. (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.

8. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.

9. (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.

   long position

   naked position
10. (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.
11. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
12. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
13. (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
14. (electronics) A pin; a connector.

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Verb

position (third-person singular simple present positions, present participle positioning, simple past and past participle positioned)

1. To put into place.

   Troponym: pre-position

Synonyms

• stell (obsolete)

Translations

Further reading

• “position”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “position”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• position (finance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• position (geometry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• position (poker) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• sopition

Finnish

Noun

position

1. genitive singular of positio

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French posicion, borrowed from Latin positiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po.zi.sjɔ̃/

Noun

position f (plural positions)

1. position

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Further reading

• “position”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔsɪˈɧuːn/
• (Light /ɧ/ variant) IPA^(key): [pɔsɪˈʂuːn]

Noun

position c

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. (team sports) a place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.

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Related terms

• positionera