condition with reference to place; location; situation.

a place occupied or to be occupied; site

a fortified position.

the proper, appropriate, or usual place

out of position.

situation or condition, esp. with relation to favorable or unfavorable circumstances

to be in an awkward position; to bargain from a position of strength.

status or standing

He has a position to maintain in the community.

high standing, as in society; important status

a person of wealth and position.

a post of employment

a position in a bank.

manner of being placed, disposed, or arranged

the relative position of the hands of a clock.

bodily posture or attitude

to be in a sitting position.

mental attitude; stand

one's position on a controversial topic.

the act of positing.

something that is posited.

Ballet . any of the five basic positions of the feet with which every step or movement begins and ends. Compare first position , second position , third position , fourth position , fifth position .

Music .

the arrangement of tones in a chord, esp. with regard to the location of the root tone in a triad or to the distance of the tones from each other. Compare close position , inversion ( def. 8a ) , open position , root position.

any of the places on the fingerboard of a stringed instrument where the fingers stop the strings to produce the variouspitches.

any of the places to which the slide of a trombone is shifted to produce changes in pitch.

Finance . a commitment to buy or sell securities

He took a large position in defense stocks.

Classical Prosody . the situation of a short vowel before two or more consonants or their equivalent, making the syllable metrically long.

to put in a particular or appropriate position; place.

to determine the position of; locate.

noun

unemployment

verb

displace , lose

noun

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verb

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