position
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ noun A2- A place or location.
- A post of employment; a job.
- A status or rank. · Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
- An opinion, stand, or stance. · My position on this issue is unchanged.
- A posture. · Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
- A situation suitable to perform some action. · The school is not a inposition to provide day-care after 4:00 pm.
- 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!
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution. · long position· naked position
Plural positions
From the library
Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.
Franz presented Albert as one of the most distinguished young men of the day, both as regarded his position in society and extraordinary talents; nor did he say more than the truth, for in Paris and the circle in which the viscount moved, he was looked upon and cited as a model of perfection.
“Gentlemen,” he said, “you will admit that, when arrived at a certain degree of fortune, the superfluities of life are all that can be desired; and the ladies will allow that, after having risen to a certain eminence of position, the ideal alone can be more exalted.
“I have enemies?” replied Dantès; “my position is not sufficiently elevated for that.
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