Position

Definition

position /pǝ'zÇʃn/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ေနရာ။ He moved the furniture back to its usual position. ❍ From his position on the cliff top, he had a good view of the harbour. ❍ Plant your rose-bush in a sunny position. (ခ) (esp pl ) ( techn ) တပ္ခ်ထားရာ၊ လက္နက္ႀကီးေနရာ။ attack the enemy positions. ၂။ [U] (က) ေနရာမွန္။ ေနရာ။ Her husband took his position at her side. ❍ The runners got into position on the starting-line. ❍ The chairs were all out of position. (ခ) ေနရာေကာင္း။ ေနရာ။ Candidates had been manoeuvring/jostling for position even before the leadership became vacant. ၃။ [C,U] အေန အထား။ sit/lie in a comfortable position ❍ be in an upright/a horizontal position ❍ The soldiers have to stand for hours without changing position. ❍ The vase was in a precarious position on the window-sill. ၄။ [C] ~ (on sth) သေဘာထား။ ရပ္တည္ခ်က္။ ႐ႈေထာင့္။ He set out/stated the government's official position on the issue. ❍ She has made her position very clear. ၅။ [C esp sing ] အေနအထား။ အေျခအေန။ in a position of power/strength/authority ❍ You realize that this puts me in a very awkward position? ❍ The company's financial position is very sound. ❍ He was in the unenviable position of having to choose between imprisonment and exile. ❍ What would you do in my position? ❍ ( fml ) I'm afraid I am not in a position to (ie I cannot) help you. ၆။ (က) [C] အဆင့္။ discuss the position of women in society ❍ the company's market position ❍ ‘What is his position in class?’‘He's third from the top. ’ (ခ) [U] ရာထူးဂုဏ္သိန္။ people of position ❍ Wealth and position were not important to her. ၇။ [C] ( fml ) အလုပ္။ ရာထူး။ a senior position in/with a big company ❍ I should like to apply for the position of assistant manager. ❍ She had worked for the firm for twenty years and was in a position of trust. ၈။ [C] ( sport ) (အသင္းလိုက္ကစားရေသာ အားကစားနည္းမ်ားတြင္) ေနရာ။ ‘What position does he play/is he?’ ‘Centre-forward. ’ v ထားသည္။ ေနသည္။ ေနရာယူသည္။ position the aerial correctly ❍ Note the positioning of the goalkeeper's feet. ❍ She positioned herself near the door. ❍ Alarms are positioned at strategic points around the prison. ❏ positional /-ʃǝnǝl/ adj အေနအထား၊ ေနရာယူမႈ ဆိုင္ရာ။ a player with poor positional skills.

Examples

1. I dragged myself into a sitting position.
2. First
3. get yourself into a comfortable position.
4. Raise the lever to the up position to get the water to flow.
5. The motor is mounted in the upright position.
6. The position is that all new residents are assessed by a social worker.
7. I wouldn’t boast about that if I were in your position.
8. Someone in their position can’t afford to take that kind of risk.
9. [be in a position to do something] : I’m not in a position to say who my sources are.
10. What is your current financial position?
11. [strengthen/improve/consolidate someone’s position] : A further injection of capital strengthened the company’s position.
12. Place the plant in a bright sunny position.
13. [position of] : Here is a chart showing the positions of the planets.
14. ‘What position do you play?’ ‘Centre forward.’
15. [position on] : No one was sure of his position on any issue.
16. [take a position] : Do you expect the government to take a position one way or another on this legislation?
17. [take the position that] : The agency takes the position that the government’s specifications were deficient.
18. There are 12 women in management positions within the company.
19. I’m sorry
20. the position has already been filled (=someone has already been chosen to do the job).
21. [a position of authority/responsibility/power] : Such behaviour was clearly not acceptable for someone in a position of authority.
22. [abuse your position] : He had seriously abused his position as a doctor by releasing patients’ personal details.
23. Following behind in fourth position is car number 47.
24. There are two positional changes to the team.