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| 1. | condition with reference to place; location; situation. |
| 2. | a place occupied or to be occupied; site: a fortified position. |
| 3. | the proper, appropriate, or usual place: out of position. |
| 4. | situation or condition, esp. with relation to favorable or unfavorable circumstances: to be in an awkward position; to bargain from a position of strength. |
| 5. | status or standing: He has a position to maintain in the community. |
| 6. | high standing, as in society; important status: a person of wealth and position. |
| 7. | a post of employment: a position in a bank. |
| 8. | manner of being placed, disposed, or arranged: the relative position of the hands of a clock. |
| 9. | bodily posture or attitude: to be in a sitting position. |
| 10. | mental attitude; stand: one's position on a controversial topic. |
| 11. | the act of positing. |
| 12. | something that is posited. |
| 13. | Ballet. any of the five basic positions of the feet with which every step or movement begins and ends. Compare first position, second position, third position, fourth position, fifth position. |
| 14. | Music.
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| 15. | Finance. a commitment to buy or sell securities: He took a large position in defense stocks. |
| 16. | Classical Prosody. the situation of a short vowel before two or more consonants or their equivalent, making the syllable metrically long. |
| 17. | to put in a particular or appropriate position; place. |
| 18. | to determine the position of; locate. |

Position
The amount of a security either owned (which constitutes a long position) or borrowed (which constitutes a short position) by an individual or by a dealer. In other words, it's a trade an investor currently holds open.
Investopedia Commentary
For example, you might hear it used in the following contexts:
1. Dealers often take long positions in specific securities to maintain inventories and allow for quick and easy trading.
2. The trader closed his position and locked in a profit of 10%.
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See also: Broker-Dealer, Long, Short
position
position
position po·si·tion (pə-zĭsh'ən)
n.
A place occupied.
A bodily attitude or posture, especially a posture assumed by a patient to facilitate the performance of diagnostic, surgical, or therapeutic procedures.
The relation of an arbitrarily chosen portion of the fetus to the right or left side of the mother.
position
in Greek or Latin prosody, the condition of having a short vowel followed by two consonants or a double consonant (such as -pp- in the Greek word hippos), which makes its syllable long. Such a syllable is said to be long by position, in contrast to a syllable having a long vowel or a diphthong, which is said to be long by nature.
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