Position vs. Occupation
Positionnoun
A place or location.
Positionnoun
A post of employment; a job.
Positionnoun
A status or rank.
Positionnoun
An opinion, stand, or stance.
Positionnoun
A posture.
Positionnoun
(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
Positionnoun
(finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
Positionnoun
(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.Position (finance)
Positionnoun
(arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
Positionnoun
(chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
Positionverb
To put into place.
Positionnoun
The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
Positionnoun
The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
Positionnoun
Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
Positionnoun
Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
Positionnoun
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; - called also the rule of trial and error.
Positionverb
To indicate the position of; to place.
Positionnoun
the particular portion of space occupied by a physical object;
Positionnoun
a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
Positionnoun
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.;
Positionnoun
position or arrangement of the body and its limbs;
Positionnoun
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;
Positionnoun
a job in an organization;
Positionnoun
the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated;
Positionnoun
the appropriate or customary location;
Positionnoun
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player;
Positionnoun
the act of putting something in a certain place or location
Positionnoun
a condition or position in which you find yourself;
Positionnoun
an item on a list or in a sequence;
Positionnoun
a rationalized mental attitude
Positionnoun
an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute;
Positionnoun
the function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another;
Positionnoun
the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
Positionverb
cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
Positionverb
put into a certain place or abstract location;
Occupationnoun
An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
Occupationnoun
The act, process or state of possessing a place.
Occupationnoun
The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
Occupationnoun
The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.
Occupationnoun
That which occupies or engages the time and attention.
Occupationnoun
The principal business of one's life; the principal work by which one earns one's livelihood; vocation; employment; profession; calling; trade; avocation; as, these days many people continue to practice their occupation well into their seventies.
Occupationnoun
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;
Occupationnoun
the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
Occupationnoun
any activity that occupies a person's attention;
Occupationnoun
the act of occupying or taking possession of a building;
Occupationnoun
the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied;
Occupationnoun
a job or profession
Occupationnoun
a way of spending time
Occupationnoun
the action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force
Occupationnoun
the action of entering and taking control of a building
Occupationnoun
the action of living in or using a building or other place
Occupationadjective
for the sole use of the occupiers of the land concerned
