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position

English

  1. 🔊 the act of positing
  2. 🔊 a job in an organization
    “he occupied a post in the treasury”
  3. 🔊 (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
    “what position does he play?”
  4. 🔊 the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
    “the position of the hands on the clock”
  5. 🔊 the arrangement of the body and its limbs
    “he assumed an attitude of surrender”
  6. 🔊 a rationalized mental attitude
  7. 🔊 a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
    “consider what follows from the positivist view”
  8. 🔊 the particular portion of space occupied by something
    “he put the lamp back in its place”
  9. 🔊 the appropriate or customary location
    “the cars were in position”
  10. 🔊 the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
    “can you go in my stead?”
  11. 🔊 an item on a list or in a sequence
    “in the second place”
  12. 🔊 an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
    “there are two sides to every question”
  13. 🔊 a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
  14. 🔊 a condition or position in which you find yourself
    “the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils”
  15. 🔊 the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
    “he had the status of a minor”
  16. 🔊 the act of putting something in a certain place
  17. 🔊 cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
  18. 🔊 put into a certain place or abstract location
    “Put your things here”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 plaza position
  2. 🔊 posición position
  3. 🔊 postura position
  4. 🔊 posicionar to position
  5. 🔊 cargo position, post
  6. 🔊 destino position, post
  7. 🔊 ubicación position, location
  8. 🔊 puesto position, employment, job

Similar words

post berth office spot billet place situation stead place lieu placement location locating positioning emplacement spatial relation posture attitude stance posture view perspective place side