position

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If you are in a position to find a similar job, thats not a big loss.

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Quick take

the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of position gathered in one view.

noun

the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place"

noun

a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons

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a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for position.

noun

the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place"

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a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons

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a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view"

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the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender"

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the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"

noun

a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"

See also: post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation

noun

the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage"

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the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position"

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(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?"

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the act of putting something in a certain place

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a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation"

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a rationalized mental attitude

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an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question"

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an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position"

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the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"

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the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom

verb

cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation

verb

put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

Example sentences

If you are in a position to find a similar job, thats not a big loss.

Even though you state that you are not in a position to do that, you really are.

I will keep my ears open for you in case any of my friends would be a good fit for your position.

Actually, yes. Usually that is what someone in that position does.

Impressive move by Spark, who have now put other VCs in the awkward position of explaining why they don't do the same.

I find an executive recruiter who finds me some CEO positions to shoot for with some medium sized $50-100m/yr copmanies.

A lot of people are very confused about FDAs position on this, said John Murray Jr., a software compliance expert at the agency.

Most of these efforts are successful because they manage to position the person being targeted in a position where they just roll over.

They will experience reality soon enough and there's absolutely no need to tell them anything they can't understand at their current position.

You don't have to be scared: this is routine and, while it doesn't feel like it, you're actually in very good position, both absolutely and relative to many other people.

The founders of Diaspora were in a really unenviable position.

Note I barely have any actual work experience at this point, I've only shown boundless ambition and a willingness to wait for senior people to retire so I can take their position.

A hammer, represented as the horizontal pin, is released from a caught position with spring tension on it, which slams into the heart cam and forces it to reset to a predetermined position.

I can now bounce around CEO and President positions for a while...spending a year or two at each place, strike enough good compensation deals to make me rich and eventually buy myself into a few choice board positions.

Since the ball motion, physics, and coordinates were all in floating point, and the ball is constantly being pushed "down" the sloped table by the gravity vector in every frame, we found that floating point error would gradually accumulate until the ball's position was suddenly on the other side of the barrier!