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well-positioned

well-positioned adjective: in an advantageous position.

Adjective

well-positioned (comparative more well-positioned, superlative most well-positioned)

  1. In an advantageous position.
    • Obviously a thrust by the tankies over the ridge and through the minefield was just not on, there and then in broad daylight, a fact they appeared to recognise. At that stage the Germans were well positioned to give them a warm reception with their powerful 88s and other artillery.1981, Noel “Wig” [Frank] Gardiner, “A Team Talk with the Tankies”, in Freyberg's Circus: Reminiscences of a Kiwi Soldier in the North African Campaign of World War II, Auckland: Ray Richards...
    • But whenever the female lays a clutch of eggs, the male is well positioned to fertilize them by releasing a spermic plume.2008 June 10, Natalie Angier, “Tallying the Toll on an Elder of the Sea”, in New York Times

Forms of well-positioned

comparativemore well-positioned
superlativemost well-positioned

Questions about well-positioned

What does well-positioned mean?
Well-positioned means in an advantageous position.
What part of speech is well-positioned?
Well-positioned is an adjective.

Words near well-positioned in the dictionary

  1. well-planned
  2. well-pleased
  3. well-pointed
  4. well-posed
  5. well-posedness
  6. well-positioned
  7. well-practised
  8. well-prepared
  9. well-preserved
  10. well-proportioned
  11. well-publicised

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