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Position
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Position
A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into. The buyer of a commodity is said to have a long position, and the seller of a commodity is said to have a short position. Related: Open contracts.
Position
The state of owning or owing a security or other asset. One has a long position when one owns something, while one has a short position when something is sold, especially sold short. See also: Close a position.
position
The ownership status of a person's or an institution's investments. For example, a person may own 500 shares of Sun Microsystems, 350 shares of Boeing, and a $10,000 principal amount of 9% bonds due in 2001. See also long position, short position.
position
To buy or sell securities in order to establish a net long or a net short position. Also called take a position.
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With Action gel table pads, different styles of medical table gel pads are available to accommodate procedures that call for the prone, lateral, or lithotomy position as well as operating room pressure relief pads designed for use on segmented operating tables.
Operating Room Table Pads- Gel Tools for Proper Surgical Patient ... by Stephen Lamb / Business community
The midwife repeated the vaginal exam, and the labouring woman was guided to the delivery room where she was placed in the lithotomy position on a delivery bed.
Evoking the guardian angel: childbirth care in a Palestinian hospital by Hassan-Bitar, Sahar; Wick, Laura / Reproductive Health Matters
Their radiological examination of pelvic diameters of women at least 37 weeks pregnant, studied the dorsal lithotomy position as well as during the McRoberts' manoeuvre (hyper flexion of the woman's legs onto her chest).
Active breech birth: the point of least resistance by Banks, Maggie / New Zealand College of Midwives Journal
 
 
 
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