position

Meaning

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.

position

place

location

situation

post

status

rank

posture

job

office

site

condition

attitude

spot

station

appointment

pose

put

stance

capacity

locate

function

state

standing

seat

set

stand

whereabouts

role

base

standpoint

view

employment

lay

space

stead

area

locus

venue

point

title

emplacement

perspective

service

work

level

case

class

opinion

viewpoint

attendance

facility

use

store

route

orientation

circumstances

locality

order

dignity

billet

belief

berth

lieu

locating

placement

positioning

spatial relation

military position

line

thought

point of view

arrangement

organize

situate

locale

lay down

put down

sitution

claim

place of employment

opening

encampment

part

predicament

arrange

direction

step

side

assertion

pos

exposure

occupation

head

designation

footing

bearing

slot

deploy

rights

duties

concept

idea

remain

stay

cause

cause to take place

hold

identify

provoke

stage

branch

chapter

crockery set

section

application

utilization

usage

pantry

storehouse

storeroom

field

piazza

plaza

public square

square

pass oneself off

resolve

exchange

official status

prerogative

estate

ordering

complications

one’s place

foothold

one’s stand

vacancy

establishment

institute

nature

plight

line up

put in order

centre

caste

distinction

nobility

prestige

splendour

division

echelon

incumbency

chairmanship

presidency

duty

affairs

highest rank

remaining

resting

argument to be proved

configuration

state of affairs

fix

disposition

statement

tenet

positional

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pəˈzɪʃ.(ə)n/

From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positio (“a putting, position”), from ponere, past participle positus (“to put, place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.

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