position
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(noun) a job in an organization or hierarchy; "he ocupied a post in the treasury" |
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Synonyms: berth, office, place, post, situation, slot, spot |
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Related Words: academicianship, accountantship, admiralty, ambassadorship, apostleship, apprenticeship, attorneyship, bailiffship, bishopry, cadetship, caliphate, captaincy, captainship, cardinalship, chair, chairmanship, chancellorship, chaplaincy, chaplainship, chieftaincy, chieftainship, clerkship, commandership, comptrollership, consulship, controllership, councillorship, councilorship, counsellorship, counselorship, curacy, curatorship, custodianship, deanery, deanship, directorship, discipleship, editorship, eldership, emirate, employment, foremanship, generalship, governorship, headship, incumbency, inspectorship, instructorship, internship, job, judgeship, judgship, judicature, lectureship, legateship, legation, legislatorship, librarianship, lieutenancy, magistracy, managership, marshalship, mastership, mayoralty, messiahship, moderatorship, overlordship, pastorate, pastorship, praetorship, precentorship, preceptorship, prefecture, prelacy, prelature, premiership, presidency, presidentship, primateship, principalship, priorship, proconsulate, proconsulship, proctorship, professorship, protectorship, receivership, regency, rulership, secretaryship, senatorship, sinecure, solicitorship, speakership, stewardship, studentship, teachership, thaneship, throne, treasurership, tribuneship, viceroyship, viziership, wardenship, wardership, work |
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(noun) (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?" |
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Related Words: back, catcher, center, center field, cleanup, cleanup position, cleanup spot, first, first base, forward, guard, left field, lineman, mid-off, mid-on, mound, pitcher, plate, right field, role, second, second base, short, shortstop, third, third base |
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(verb) cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation |
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Related Words: aim, deploy, direct, dress, lay, line up, orient, place, pose, position, put, set, square, take, take aim, train |
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(noun) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage" |
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Synonyms: spatial relation |
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Related Words: angular position, anteriority, arrangement, centrality, coincidence, direction, elbow room, erectness, externality, gradient, horizontality, inclination, inwardness, lean, leaning, list, malposition, marginality, misplacement, northernness, occlusion, outwardness, placement, point of view, posteriority, relation, room, slope, slot, southernness, tilt, uprightness, verticality, verticalness, way |
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(noun) position or arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" |
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Synonyms: attitude, posture |
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Related Words: asana, ballet position, bodily property, eversion, guard, lithotomy position, lotus position, missionary position, order arms, sprawl, sprawling, stance |
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(noun) a rationalized mental attitude |
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Synonyms: posture |
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Related Words: attitude, mental attitude |
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(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" |
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Synonyms: perspective, view |
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Related Words: Weltanschauung, cutting edge, forefront, light, orientation, paradigm, point of view, sight, stand, standpoint, vanguard, viewpoint, world view |
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(noun) the particular portion of space occupied by a physical object: "he put the lamp back in its place" |
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Synonyms: place |
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Related Words: anomaly, back, front, half-mast, land site, landmark, lead, left, lie, pitch, point, polls, post, rear, right, setting, site, situation, stand, station, vantage |
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(noun) the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position" |
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Related Words: point |
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(noun) the function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another: "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" |
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Synonyms: lieu, place, stead |
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Related Words: behalf, function, office, part, role |
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(noun) an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position" |
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Synonyms: place |
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Related Words: item, point, postposition |
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(noun) an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question" |
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Synonyms: side |
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Related Words: opinion, view |
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(noun) a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons |
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Synonyms: military position |
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Related Words: ground, line, point |
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(noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself: "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation" |
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Synonyms: situation |
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Related Words: condition, place, shoes, soup, status, stymie |
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(noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society: "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" |
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Synonyms: status |
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Related Words: bar sinister, bastardy, caste, citizenship, command, dignity, equality, equivalence, face, footing, high status, illegitimacy, leadership, legal status, low status, marital status, nationality, nobility, noblesse, par, pedestal, rank, retirement, social rank, social station, social status, standing, state, terms |
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(noun) the act of putting something in a certain place or location |
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Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positioning, situating |
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Related Words: activity, fingering, implantation, interposition, juxtaposition, orientation, planting, repositioning, set |
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(verb) put into a certain place: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the mising children"; also with abstract objects and locations: "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
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Synonyms: lay, place, pose, put, set |
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Related Words: appose, arrange, barrel, bed, bottle, bucket, butt, clap, cock, coffin, cram, deposit, displace, docket, ensconce, fix, garner, glycerolize, ground, instal, install, intersperse, jar, juxtapose, lay, lay over, lean, load, lose, marshal, middle, mislay, misplace, move, parallelize, park, perch, pillow, pitch, place down, place upright, plant, poise, pose, posit, position, put back, put down, put forward, put in, rack up, recess, replace, repose, reposition, rest, seat, seed, set, set down, set up, settle, settle down, shelve, sign, sit, sit down, situate, sough, sow, space, stand, stand up, stick, store, stow, superimpose, tee, tee up, throw |
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