📖 Definitions of "Straddle"
- 1
A posture in which one straddles something.
- 2
An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on same security with positions that offset one another.
- 3
A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
- 4
A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.
- 1
To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
- 2
To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
"Putin seems to be everywhere at once, straddling the ocean, filling the sky, just like Stalin."
- 3
To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
"Wanting to please both sides, he straddled the issue."
- 4
To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.
"Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks"
- 1
Astride.
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