position

Definitions

• A place or location.
• A post of employment; a job.
• A status or rank.
• An opinion, stand or stance.
• A posture.
• (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm or institution.
• (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.
• (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
• (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.