• the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
• a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
• the function or Position properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"
• (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what Position does he play?"
• the act of putting something in a certain place or location
• 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"
• Position or arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender"
• a rationalized mental attitude
• a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view"
• an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth Position"
• an opinion that is held in opPosition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question"
• the particular portion of space occupied by a physical object; "he put the lamp back in its place"
• the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in Position"
• a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
• a condition or Position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or Position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation"
• 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"
• put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
• cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation

'Position' in other languages