position

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A place or location.

   “Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.”

2. isim A post of employment; a job.
3. isim A status or rank.

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

4. isim An opinion, stand, or stance.

   “My position on this issue is unchanged.”

5. isim A posture.

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

6. isim A situation suitable to perform some action.

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

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

   “long position”

9. isim 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.
10. isim A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
11. isim The full state of a chess game at any given turn.

    “The following problem-like position occurred in an over-the-board game at a base in Korea:”

12. isim The order in which players are seated around the table.
13. isim A pin; a connector.
14. fiil To put into place.

    “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.”