position

IPA: pʌzˈɪʃʌn

A place or location.
A post of employment; a job.
A status or rank.
An opinion, stand, or stance.
A posture.
(figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
(finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
(finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
(arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
(chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
(poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
(electronics) A pin; a connector.

Examples of "position" in Sentences

The change in position is much larger than the errors, showing it to be a real movement in an orbit!
Changing the label position from right to bottom then back again seems to have fixed the problem ... for now.
You therefore assume that my position is also an absolute, always negotiate, always, no matter how ridiculous the claim.
Obviously, the first problem with McCain position is that for years Alaskans have overwhelmingly favored drilling in ANWR.
And we let some of them in, sometimes with the unexamined conceit that any shift in position is a window into the candidate's lack of character, toughness or principle.
The sheer arrogance of the McCain position is stunning; his inability to separate himself from the neoconservative extremists on any foreign policy issue raises major questions about his alleged foreign policy expertise.
As the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, he rightfully believed that the title position put his place in the uppity-stratospheric levels shared by other internationally famous, extremely wealthy and very powerful male WASP sports figures of his day (think Babe Ruth or John L. Sullivan).