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position

Syllables: po·si·tion/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/

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position noun: a place or location.

Noun

position (plural positions)

  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, “Talking of Trains: Recording Electric Operation”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 707
    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. (figuratively) A situation suitable to perform some action.
    • The school is not a inposition to provide day-care after 4:00 pm.
  7. (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!
  8. An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
    • long position
    • naked position
  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.
  13. A pin; a connector.

Verb

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

  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 repositories of riches.2012 June 26, Simon Bowers, “Tax crackdowns threaten Channel Islands' haven status”, in The Guardian

position meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

position in Hindi

place, location
स्थान sthān
post of employment
पद pad, पदवी padvī
status or rank
पद pad, पदवी padvī
opinion, stand or stance
स्थिति sthiti

position in Tamil

நிலை, நிலைப்பாடு, நிலைமை, பதவி, பொறுப்பு, குறியிடம்

position in Marathi

पदाची स्थिती

position in Urdu

place, location
جَگَہْ jagah, مَکان makān
post of employment
پَد pad
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position in Bengali
অবস্থান obosthan
position in Telugu
పదవి padavi, బంధము bandhamu
position in Malayalam
സ്ഥാനം sthānaṁ, പദവി padavi, നിലപാട് nilapāṭŭ
position in Kannada
ಸ್ಥಾನ sthāna
position in Punjabi
ਰੁਤਬਾ rutbā
position in Gujarati
સ્થાન sthān
position in Sanskrit
स्थान sthā́na, भूमि bhū́mi, गति gáti
position in Nepali
रूप rūp
position in Pashto
موقف mawqíf
position in Arabic
مَوْقِع mawqiʕ, مَكَان makān, مَنْصِب manṣib, مَكَانَة makāna
position in Malay
kedudukan
position in Thai
ตำแหน่ง dtam-nɛ̀ng, อัตรา àt-dtraa, จุดยืน jùt-yʉʉn
position in Vietnamese
vị trí

Examples of position in a sentence

  • In this position, white has an opportunity to make a good move.
  • She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.
  • The contestants are all tied; no one has the lead position.

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Synonyms of position

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Forms of position

Noun
pluralpositions
Verb
third-person singular presentpositions
present participlepositioning
past participlepositioned
pastpositioned

Plural of position: positions

Origin of position

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.

Words formed from position

Phrases with position

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Words that rhyme with position

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Questions about position

What does position mean?
Position means a place or location.
What is position in Hindi?
Position in Hindi is स्थान (sthān), पद (pad), पदवी (padvī). See Position meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is position?
Position can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce position?
Position is pronounced /pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ (UK).
What is the plural of position?
The plural of position is positions.

Words near position in the dictionary

  1. positeth
  2. positif organ
  3. positif organs
  4. positing
  5. positings
  6. position
  7. position argument
  8. position arguments
  9. position issue
  10. position issues
  11. position of strength

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: position (page history and authors); position (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); position (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); పదవి (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಸ್ಥಾನ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਰੁਤਬਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); સ્થાન (Gujarati) (page history and authors); गति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); रूप (Nepali) (page history and authors); موقف (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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