position paper is a noun meaning "a report that explains or justifies or recommends some particular policy". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a report that explains or justifies or recommends some particular policy
a memorandum summarizing the items of an agreement (used especially in diplomatic communications)
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for position paper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.