position

• Noun

  1. A place or location.
  2. A post of employment; a job.
  3. A status or rank.
  4. An opinion, stand, or stance.
  5. A posture.
  6. A situation suitable to perform some action.
  7. A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
  8. An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
  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.
  12. The order in which players are seated around the table.
  13. A pin; a connector.

• Verb