position vs rating

position

noun
  • A status or rank. 

  • 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. 

  • The full state of a chess game at any given turn. 

  • A situation suitable to perform some action. 

  • The order in which players are seated around the table. 

  • A place or location. 

  • A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error. 

  • An opinion, stand, or stance. 

  • A posture. 

  • A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player. 

  • A post of employment; a job. 

  • An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution. 

verb
  • To put into place. 

rating

noun
  • An evaluation of status, especially of financial status. 

  • An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer. 

  • A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something. 

  • A position on a scale. 

  • A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program. 

  • A seaman in a warship. 

How often have the words position and rating occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )