position

noun

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    a job in an organization

    he occupied a post in the treasury

  3. 3

    the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

    can you go in my stead?

    took his place

  4. 4

    (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player

    what position does he play?

  5. 5

    the act of putting something in a certain place

  6. 6

    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

  7. 7

    the arrangement of the body and its limbs

    he assumed an attitude of surrender

  8. 8

    a rationalized mental attitude

  9. 9

    a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

    consider what follows from the positivist view

  10. 10

    an item on a list or in a sequence

    in the second place

    moved from third to fifth position

  11. 11

    an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute

    there are two sides to every question

  12. 12

    the particular portion of space occupied by something

    he put the lamp back in its place

Synonyms

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