Definitions for positions

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positions po·si·tion

Spelling: [puh-zish-uh n]

IPA: /pəˈzɪʃ ən/

Positions is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in positions (iinoopsst).

Definitions for positions

noun

1. condition with reference to place; location; situation.
2. a place occupied or to be occupied; site:
3. the proper, appropriate, or usual place:
4. situation or condition, especially with relation to favorable or unfavorable circumstances:
5. status or standing:
6. high standing, as in society; important status:
7. a post of employment:
8. manner of being placed, disposed, or arranged:
9. bodily posture or attitude:
10. mental attitude; stand:
11. the act of positing.
12. something that is posited.
13. Ballet. any of the five basic positions of the feet with which every step or movement begins and ends. Compare first position, second position, third position, fourth position, fifth position.
14. Music. the arrangement of tones in a chord, especially with regard to the location of the root tone in a triad or to the distance of the tones from each other. Compare close position, inversion (def 8a), open position, root position. any of the places on the fingerboard of a stringed instrument where the fingers stop the strings to produce the variouspitches. any of the places to which the slide of a trombone is shifted to produce changes in pitch.
15. Finance. a commitment to buy or sell securities:
16. Classical Prosody. the situation of a short vowel before two or more consonants or their equivalent, making the syllable metrically long.

verb (used with object)

1. to put in a particular or appropriate position; place.
2. to determine the position of; locate.

Origin of positions

1325-75; Middle English posicioun a positing (Anglo-French) Latin positiōn- (stem of positiō) a placing, etc. See posit, -ion

Examples for positions

In his months in this position, he had not found a single example such as this.

If you don't know my position on board this ship, it's time you found it out!

You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.

If you had married him you'd 'a' had a position, like they say here, right away.

Now tell me just what you expect a woman in my position to do.

This is, more or less, the position of political conservatives, who have come down firmly on the side of the fracking industry.

Yet it is a satisfaction to do what I can to let you know the position in which I stand.

In a 2009 interview, Church apostle Dallin H. Oaks held that the Church “does not have a position” on that point.

Essentially, we are being left in a position where we are expected to just take agency promises at face value.

If she would go with him, he held such a position that he could provide for her honourably.