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position
English
Etymology
From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positio (“a putting, position”), from ponere, past participle positus (“to put, place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??z?.?(?)n/
- (General American) enPR: p?-z??sh(?)n, IPA(key): /p??z?.?(?)n/
- Rhymes: -???n
- Hyphenation (UK): po?si?tion, pos?i?tion, (US): po?si?tion
Noun
position (plural positions)
- A place or location.
- A post of employment; a job.
- A status or rank.
- Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- My position on this issue is unchanged.
- A posture.
- Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
- (figuratively) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (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!
- (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.
Synonyms
- stead
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
- position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
position (third-person singular simple present positions, present participle positioning, simple past and past participle positioned)
- 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.
- 26 June 2012, Simon Bowers in The Guardian, Tax crackdowns threaten Channel Islands' haven status[1]
Synonyms
- stell (obsolete)
Translations
Further reading
- position in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- position in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- sopition
Finnish
Noun
position
- Genitive singular form of positio.
French
Etymology
From Old French posicion, from Latin positio, positionem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.zi.sj??/
Noun
position f (plural positions)
- position
Derived terms
Further reading
- “position” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
position c
- 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.
- (team sports) a place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
Declension
Related terms
- positionera
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foremost
English
Etymology
From Old English formest, fyrmest (“earliest, first, most prominent”), from Proto-Germanic *frumistaz, from the locative stem *fur-, *fr- + the superlative suffix *-umistaz, stem ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pr-. The suffix *-umistaz was a compound suffix, created from the rarer comparative suffix *-umô (as in Old English fruma) + the regular superlative suffix *-istaz (English -est); *-umô in turn is from Proto-Indo-European *-mHo-.
Cognate with Old Frisian formest, Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (frumists). See for, first and Old English fruma for more. Partially cognate to primus, from Proto-Indo-European *pr- + Latin superlative suffix -imus, from Proto-Indo-European *-mHo-.
A comparative former was back-formed analogically, leaving the m from *-umô in place. Later the Old English suffix complex -(u)m-est was conflated with the word most through folk etymology, so that the word is now interpreted as fore +? -most.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??.m??st/
- Rhymes: -??st
Adjective
foremost (not comparable)
- first, either in time or in space
- Most forward; front
- of a higher rank or position; paramount
- (nautical) closest to the bow
Translations
Adverb
foremost (not comparable)
- in front
- prominently forward
- especially; particularly
- 2001, Chantel Laran Sawyer Lumpkin, The Influences of Assets on the Academic Achievement of African American College Students, p. 155:
- As dependent minors the foremost proximal system was family, followed by school and community.
- 2013, Robert Woods, Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel, p. XXIX:
- Lewis is the twentieth century's foremost popular writer and the most influential public intellectual for evangelicals.
- 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[1]
- England head to Nice for Saturday’s third-place playoff after yet more semi-final disappointment but with heads held high having played their part in a wonderful game featuring some particularly harsh luck. Foremost among it was the marginal offside which saw an Ellen White goal disallowed and, later, a penalty miss by Steph Houghton.
- 2001, Chantel Laran Sawyer Lumpkin, The Influences of Assets on the Academic Achievement of African American College Students, p. 155:
Translations
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