pole position

1. 1.

   the most favorable position at the start of a race

   Broaderposition

Questions about pole position

What does pole position mean?

pole position means "the most favorable position at the start of a race".

Is pole position a common word?

pole position is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.