Phrase Hound found 86 phrases and 44 compound words that contain position. The most common are listed below. Open position in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 86
- sex positionAny of the physical positions adopted for sexual intercourse.
- position paperAn essay or report which expresses a position, conclusion, or recommendation concerning a contested issue or undecided question and which usually contains arguments or reasons in support of this position.
- assume the positionOften used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to assume a given position.
- pole positionThe top qualifying position for a race, on the inside of the front row at the starting line.
- Third PositionA neofascist political stance that opposes both capitalism and communism.
- position of trustA role that grants authority over other people or valuable items, carrying an obligation to appropriately exercise that authority.
- New Position
- open positionAn active trade with unrealized profits and losses that has not yet been offset (“closed”) by a corresponding equivalent deal.
- long positionA financial instrument bought with the expectation that it will increase in value.
- short positionA financial instrument bought with the expectation that it will decrease in value.
- recovery positionThe position, into which helpers will typically place an unconscious person, of lying on the floor three-quarters prone, on one's side; this position maximizes the likelihood of the person's airway remaining open.
- Leadership position
- first positionA position with the heels together and the toes going outwards.
- code positionSynonym of code point: A numerical offset in a character set, etc., as opposed to a displayed grapheme or character, which can be composed of several code points.
- key positionAny tall forward or defensive position (traditionally, full-back, centre half-back, centre half-forward, or full-forward).
- Official position
- missionary positionA position for sexual intercourse in which the man and woman face each other, with the man on top.
- second positionA position in which the feet point in opposite directions, with heels spaced a short distance apart.
- Relative position
- lotus positionA cross-legged sitting position in which the feet are resting on the thigh of the opposite leg; a meditative position in Hinduism and Buddhism, also used in yoga and sexual intercourse.
- Top position
- Dominant position
- position issueA controversial political or social topic that divides voters or the public based on ideology, values, or differing self-interests.
- post positionAn individual horse's or dog's stall at the starting gate from which the race is begun.
- position vectorOf a point, a vector going from the origin to that point; equivalently, the transpose of the point.
Compound words 44
- prepositionAny of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in …
- positionerThat which positions.
- adpositionAn element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
- pozzyJam (“fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar”).
- positionableCapable of being positioned.
- forepositionPosition ahead of or in front of; forward position.
- outpositionTo obtain a better position than.
- ambipositionAn adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
- circumpositionThe act of positioning something around something else; or the state of being so positioned
- infrapositionA situation or state of being beneath something else.