1 [U,C] the position in which you hold your body when standing or sitting:
a comfortable / relaxed posture * upright / sitting / supine postures * Back pains can be the result of bad posture.
2 [C,usually sing.] your attitude to a particular situation or the way in which you deal with it:
The government has adopted an aggressive posture on immigration.
verb [V] ~ (as sth) (formal) to pretend to be sth that you are not by saying and doing things in order to impress or deceive people
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for posture is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is posture a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, posture is tagged as noun.
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