comfortable position
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcomfortableandposition
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comfortable
adjective
uk/ˈkʌm.fə.tə.bəl/us/ˈkʌm.fɚ.t̬ə.bəl/
Comfortable furniture and clothes provide a pleasant feeling and do not give you any ...
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position
noun
uk/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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(Definition ofcomfortableandpositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He is in a verycomfortableposition.
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That might be acomfortableposition.
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But by now theircomfortablepositionis going.
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That very success leaves him in a verycomfortableposition.
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We are sitting in an extremelycomfortableposition.
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That is not a frightfullycomfortablepositionto be in.
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Other consequences may consist of socially reinforcing events, as when crying causes a parent to move a child's injured limb to a morecomfortableposition.
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She settled on my chest in acomfortableposition, as she would have done had she been napping on my son.
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I believe that our fundamental balances are in a relativelycomfortablepositionat the moment.
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Yet the trend towards a morecomfortablepositionis clearly marked.
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They certainly do not seem to be in a verycomfortablepositionthere now.
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We expect midwives to discuss with women the mostcomfortablepositionfor them.
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A few years ago the universities were in a relativelycomfortableposition.
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Some of them, probably because their investments have prospered, are still in acomfortableposition.
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It has thecomfortablepositionadvocating policies without responsibility and without having to implement them.
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I hope that the new arrangement will be able to put them in a morecomfortablepositionin life.
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What standard of income is taken as representing thatcomfortablepositionwhich prevents a person seeking work?
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But they will have to move to a lesscomfortablepositionwhich alone will be open to them.
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He is in thecomfortablepositionof being in opposition, when he refuses to make those choices.
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It ill becomes one in hiscomfortablepositionto present such an inaccurate picture of northern workers.
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They ask why we should risk ourcomfortablepositionin this country by tying up with all those problems.
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How is it that they happen to have such a claim as this so as to put them into a verycomfortableposition?
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To be confronted by massed ranks of police officers when you travel to a match is not a verycomfortableposition.
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The only defence for the means test is that the nation at the moment is not in thecomfortablepositionthat it formerly was.
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