Word Finder - position

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A place or location.

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A post of employment; a job.

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A status or rank.

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Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.

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An opinion, stand or stance.

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My position on this issue is unchanged.

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A posture.

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Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.

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(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.

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Stop running all over the field and play your position!

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An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm or institution.

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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.

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A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.

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The full state of a chess game at any given turn.

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To put into place.

She fluffed the pillow and changed position, unable to sleep.

Han chuckled from his position near the window.

I am serious and fortunately in a perfect position to act.

It served her well in her position as a spy.

Howard was a good ten years older and had far more important things on his mind – like his new position as partner at the law firm.

Surely Katie realized Alex remained head of the household because he liked the position – and because he was married to a person who liked him in that position.

He rose from his kneeling position and faced her.

Presently he woke up, rose to a sitting position and rubbed his eyes briskly.

Kiki whirled from his position before the hearth, his oriental features set off by electric turquoise eyes.

The position of the hand is as easy to feel as it is to see.

Gabriel frowned, unaware of anything that could push him from his position as Death.

They'd been there what felt like a day, and yet the sun was in the same position as when they'd been thrown into the world.

She grabbed it frantically as he put his hands under her arms and pulled her to a standing position, her face only inches from his.

There was a position open at a private home, but the salary had to be wrong.

He had earned the position, mostly in the time they were courting, but certainly since they had been married.

Anatole was always content with his position, with himself, and with others.

While Betsy loved her position, she was far more enchanted with our success and would adopt it as a full time venture in a minute.

He'd served as Damian's executioner for thousands of years, a position he found fitting for his general dislike of the human capacity for evil.

Gabriel rose from his position crouching over the body of someone he knew.

Wynn looked up from his position nearby.

Nicholas' position became worse and worse.

Wynn took up position in a seat near the bed.

He'd managed to push himself into a sitting position when she returned with soup and water.

She sat up straight, thinking that position would be uncomfortable enough to keep her awake.

Never heard of someone in your position making an unofficial deal.

In the past, war could increase your financial position, both as a nation (through spoils) and a soldier (through plunder).

And now she had put herself in a position where she would be alone with him in the car.

Being curious to know what position my great bubbles occupied with regard to the new ice, I broke out a cake containing a middling sized one, and turned it bottom upward.

But in what position are we going to attack him?

So you understand the whole position of our troops?

What a position for the Emperor to be in!

She no longer complained of her position, did not say a word about the past, and no longer feared to make happy plans for the future.

At home Natasha placed herself in the position of a slave to her husband, and the whole household went on tiptoe when he was occupied--that is, was reading or writing in his study.

He didn't bring it up again - not even when Jonathan was unable to get his short arm into a comfortable position to play the guitar.

The chickens fought for position in the tiny coop door as they watched her pour a bucket of water into the tire.

When he saw Mack and heard the details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, understood all the difficulties of the Russian army's position, and vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to play.

The alarm will be sounded and you'll be in a pretty position without your boots!

But even if he also took up a position in the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.

The position we occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on the right they will expose a flank to me.

The whole French army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this side, so close to our own forces that Napoleon with the naked eye could distinguish a mounted man from one on foot.

The locality and the position of our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone in our army.

Count Ilya Rostov had resigned the position of Marshal of the Nobility because it involved him in too much expense, but still his affairs did not improve.

Sonya sat down before the glasses, got the right position, and began looking.

The Russians did not seek out the best position but, on the contrary, during the retreat passed many positions better than Borodino.

It's also a bond that folks in my position have to be careful about taking on, because it leaves me vulnerable.

We're in a unique position to help people who can't help themselves against bad guys who want to hurt them, he said.

The dealers are rebelling, and they've figured out a way to out me from my position.

I found out there's a way for the rebellion to permanently remove me from my position.

The creature looked confused but shifted from its guarded crouch to a kneeling position.

Kiera watched as he assumed the same position and shifted his stance into a new position.