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A posture in which one straddles something.

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An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on same security with positions that offset one another.

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A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.

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A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.

verb

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To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.

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To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.

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Putin seems to be everywhere at once, straddling the ocean, filling the sky, just like Stalin.

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To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.

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Wanting to please both sides, he straddled the issue.

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To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.

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Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks

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To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range (the term "bracket" is often used instead).

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To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).

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To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.

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To execute a commodities market spread.

Examples of straddles in a Sentence

In addition to "futures" proper there are "options" and " straddles."

In fact it is distilled in a rather humdrum blackened building that straddles the main road south from Kirkwall.

A new development now straddles the Jutland Street basin.

The book successfully straddles the boundary that separates a text book from a history book.

The large Acer site straddles the border between the two old counties.

It straddles a language frontier - where French meets Flemish, where south meets north.

The dragon of Nature straddles the globe of the Earth.

Short straddles represent the opposite prediction that a stock price will not change.

While a matte white is the most common color, a dark, earthy neutral is also appropriate for a decor that straddles both modernism and minimalism.

Like most architectural periods, modernism is a term that straddles a large variety of interiors that evolved over several decades.

Lake Tahoe straddles the California/Nevada border, making it possible to visit resorts in either state.

Costières de Nîmes is a French appellation that straddles the southern Rhône Valley and is part of the ill-defined the Languedoc-Roussillon.

If AC/DC and Black Sabbath straddle hard rock and metal, then Poison definitely straddles hard rock and pop.

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