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UK
/stɹˈædəl/
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[ US /ˈstɹædəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹædəɫ/ ]
VERB
- sit or stand astride of
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range or extend over; occupy a certain area
The plants straddle the entire state - be noncommittal
NOUN
- a noncommittal or equivocal position
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
- a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
How To Use straddle In A Sentence
- The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
- He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
- Chukotka straddles the Arctic Circle and its nine - month winter can witness temperatures as low as - 60 C.
- She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck.
- According to F&F Foods, the current manufacturer of Sen Sen®, the candy straddled olfactive and gustative categorization at its inception and “In keeping with its perfumery roots, it was on the market list for many years as a cosmetic.” Breath Perfumes
- Geographynote: landlocked; straddles crest of the Nile-Congo watershed; the Kagera, which drains into Lake Victoria, is the most remote headstream of the White Nile Burundi
- Designed nearly a century ago to be all things to all people, it Chaplin-esquely tries to straddle thousands of rapidly fragmenting micro-niches, a mainframe in an iTouch world. The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
- As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
- Does he sometimes straddle difficult issues in an effort to please multiple constituencies?
- A straddle is the use of the same strikes for both the call and the put, but a strangle uses out-of-the-money OTM options, usually equally spaced from the price of the underlying. Real-World Trading: Strangling Profits out of Our Option Trade - Yahoo! Finance
