Main entry: berth, billet, spot, situation, position, post, place, office
Definition: a job in an organization
Usage: he occupied a post in the treasury
Definition: physical position in relation to the surroundings
Usage: the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides
Main entry: situation, position
Definition: a condition or position in which you find yourself
Usage: the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils; found herself in a very fortunate situation
Main entry: situation, state of affairs
Definition: the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
Usage: the present international situation is dangerous; wondered how such a state of affairs had come about; eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation- Franklin D.Roosevelt
Main entry: situation
Definition: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
Usage: the dangerous situation developed suddenly; that's quite a situation; no human situation is simple