Meanings of obtained a position in English

Like Katy, she had obtained a position as cashgirl in McNaughton's.

Then he graduated and obtained a position as clerk, receiving a very moderate salary.

As for Conrad, I have obtained a position for him.

Benjamin Dorn, like Herr Zittel, had left the Prudentia, and obtained a position with the Excelsior.

As to Genji, he thought he had obtained a position too exalted, and an influence too great.

Never obtained a position higher than that of corporal; but that is not extraordinary in the English army.

I have obtained a position in a wholesale house on Reade Street, and hope I may give satisfaction.

At the age of twenty-three he obtained a position as organist at Winterthur, and also taught at Zurich.

Then it happened that your cousin, George Lerton, obtained a position in the same office after his father's death.

After a boyhood of poverty and struggles, he obtained a position as Kapellmeister to a Bohemian nobleman, Count Morzin.

This negro had obtained a position with the sleeping car company under a false name and with fraudulent recommendations.

On the 6th of December General Foster obtained a position covering the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, between the Coosawhatchie and Tulifinny rivers.

Towards the beginning of 1862 he obtained a position as clerk in a publishing house at a salary of a pound a week.

Instead of going to school, as my father wished, I applied for and obtained a position as "devil" in the office.

After trying in vain for some time to secure employment in a business house, he obtained a position as assistant in a commercial school.

The satisfaction of Austin and his father was mutual-thoughprompted by very different motives-whenAustin obtained a position in one of the village stores.