The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word POSITION
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result POSITION
- Job status
- . Medicinal drink one’s knocked up inside office
- Is work lifted and shifted into place?
- Short of work, those one’s up against for job
- Standing back, one’s caught in draught
- Attitude is shown up in draught
- Spot on back is bathed with elixir
- Varied options must include one job
- Take as a hypothesis charged particle’s location
- The point of employment?
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The straight part
We know that "job" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case job = position.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does POSITION mean?
POSITION noun- A place or location.
- A post of employment; a job.
- A status or rank.
- An opinion, stand or stance.
- A posture.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm or institution.
- 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.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- To put into place.