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From Средњи Енглески posicioun, from Стари Француски posicion, from Латински positio (“a putting, position”), from ponere, past participle positus (“to put, place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.

• (Received Pronunciation) МФА^(кључ): /pəˈzɪʃ.(ə)n/
• (General American) enPR: pə-zĭshʹ(ə)n, МФА^(кључ): /pəˈzɪʃ.(ə)n/

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• Риме: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation (UK): po‧si‧tion, pos‧i‧tion, (US): po‧si‧tion

position (plural positions)

1. A place or location.
2. A post of employment; a job.
3. A status or rank.

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

4. An opinion, stand, or stance.

   My position on this issue is unchanged.

5. A posture.

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

6. (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.

   The school is not in a position to provide day-care after 4:00 pm.

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

   Stop running all over the field and play your position!

8. (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
9. (finance) 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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10. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
11. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.

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• position на Википедији.Википедији

position (third-person singular simple present positions, present participle positioning, simple past and past participle positioned)

1. To put into place.
   • 26 June 2012, Simon Bowers in The Guardian, Tax crackdowns threaten Channel Islands' haven status[1]

     While other small nations with large banking sectors, such as Iceland and Ireland, have been undone by their reckless lending practices, the debt-free Channel Islands have always positioned themselves as dependable repositories of riches.

• stell (obsolete)

• position in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• position in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• sopition ^{(alphagram iinoopst)}

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position

1. Genitive singular form of positio.

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From Стари Француски posicion, позајмљено од Латински positiō.

• МФА^(кључ): /po.zi.sjɔ̃/

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position f (plural positions)

1. position

• “position” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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position c

1. a place, a location, a position. A description of where something is located with respect to the surroundings, e.g. the satellites of the GPS system.
2. (team sports) a place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.

Declension of position
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	position	positionen	positioner	positionerna
Genitive	positions	positionens	positioners	positionernas

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