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say it: puh-ZISH-uhn
position is a noun and verb meaning "the particular portion of space occupied by something". It is pronounced /pəˈzɪʃən/ — puh-ZISH-uhn. It carries 18 recorded senses.
a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
military
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
“consider what follows from the positivist view”
the arrangement of the body and its limbs
“he assumed an attitude of surrender”
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
“he had the status of a minor”
“the novel attained the status of a classic”
“atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life”
a job in an organization
“he occupied a post in the treasury”
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”
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
“what position does he play?”
sport
the act of putting something in a certain place
a rationalized mental attitude
an item on a list or in a sequence
“in the second place”
“moved from third to fifth position”
the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for position come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.