position
pronunciation
How to pronounce position in British English:
UK [pəˈzɪʃn]
How to pronounce position in American English:
US [pəˈzɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the particular portion of space occupied by a physical object
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- position or arrangement of the body and its limbs
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a job in an organization
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- the appropriate or customary location
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- the act of putting something in a certain place or location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- a rationalized mental attitude
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
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- Verb:
- cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
- put into a certain place or abstract location
Word Origin
- position
- position: [15] Position comes via Old French from Latin positiō, a noun formed from posit-, the past participial stem of Latin pōnere ‘put, place’. This was also the source of English posit [17], positive [13] (which etymologically means ‘placed down, laid down’, hence ‘emphatically asserted’), post (in the senses ‘mail’ and ‘job’), and posture [17].And in addition it lies behind a wealth of English verbs (compose, depose, dispose [14], expose [15], impose, interpose [16], oppose, repose, suppose, transpose [14], etc) whose form underwent alteration by association with late Latin pausāre ‘stop’ (see POSE); postpone exceptionally has retained its link with pōnere.=> compose, depose, dispose, expose, impose, oppose, positive, post, postpone, repose, suppose, transpose
- position (n.)
- late 14c., as a term in logic and philosophy, from Old French posicion "position, supposition" (Modern French position), from Latin positionem (nominative positio) "act or fact of placing, situation, position, affirmation," noun of state from past participle stem of ponere "put, place," from PIE *po-s(i)nere, from *apo- "off, away" (see apo-) + *sinere "to leave, let" (see site). Meaning "proper place occupied by a person or thing" is from 1540s. Meaning "manner in which some physical thing is arranged or posed" first recorded 1703; specifically in reference to dance steps, 1778, sexual intercourse, 1883. Meaning "official station, employment" is from 1890.
- position (v.)
- 1670s, "to assume a position (intransitive), from position (n.). Transitive sense of "to put in a particular position" is recorded from 1817. Related: Positioned; positioning.
Example
- 1. Irani recently lost his board seat and chair position .
- 2. That way , " they understand what it means to come up in that position . "
- 3. Position : ceo , president , chair
- 4. The firm 's strategic position provides a solid basis on which to grow and generate superior returns . "
- 5. So now we position ourselves in the second phase , the development phase .