Synonyms:
position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation
Meaning: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
Usage examples
Narvaez himself lay almost unconscious in his berth.
"All day yesterday, when she wasn't sick she was raging at me from the upper berth, and I too ill to say a word in reply.
At the end of the caravan was a narrow bed something like a berth on board ship, and on it a woman was lying who was evidently very ill.
She felt very sorry for poor little Amy, raging there in her high berth like some imprisoned creature, but she was powerless to help her.
She wouldn't even take the baby into the berth with her; and I have had all I could do to manage with him, when I couldn't lift up my head.
I found he was an old sailor, kept a public-house, knew all the seafaring men in Bristol, had lost his health ashore, and wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea again.
On the whole, Katy preferred to have her own side of the ship, the downward one; for it was less difficult to keep herself in the berth, from which she was in continual danger of being thrown.
It will also be found that the light in your berth does not work, so you will be awake for a long time; finally, just as you are leaving Buffalo, you will at last get to sleep, and when you open your eyes again, you will be--in Buffalo.
You would have cried too, and so would Johnnie, if you had been cooped up in a dreadful old berth at the top of the wall that you couldn't get out of, and hadn't had anything to eat, and nobody to bring you any water when you wanted some.
William and one of the accommodating Captains running on the Richmond and Philadelphia Line, to the effect that he, William, should have a first class Underground Rail Road berth, so perfectly private that even the law-officers could not find him.