pole position
Definition of pole position
: the front position at the start of a car race He won the pole position by having the fastest qualifying time.
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: a long slender usually cylindrical object (such as a length of wood)
: a shaft which extends from the front axle of a wagon between wheelhorses and by which the wagon is drawn : tongue
: a long staff of wood, metal, or fiberglass used in the pole vault
: to act upon with a pole
: to impel or push with a pole
: to propel a boat with a pole
: either extremity of an axis of a sphere and especially of the earth's axis
: either of two related opposites
: a point of guidance or attraction
: an act of placing or arranging: such as
: the laying down of a proposition or thesis
: an arranging in order
: to put in a certain position
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