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- Dictionarystraddle/ˈstradl/
verb
- 1. sit or stand with one leg on either side of: "he turned the chair round and straddled it" Similar
noun
- 1. an act of sitting or standing with one's legs wide apart: "a sideways-on stance such as a straddle"
- 2. a simultaneous purchase of options to buy and to sell a security or commodity at a fixed price, allowing the purchaser to make a profit whether the price of the security or commodity goes up or down.
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Jun 24, 2011 · STRADDLE definition: 1. to sit or stand with your legs on either side of something: 2. Something that straddles a line…. Learn more.
1. : to stand, sit, or walk with the legs wide apart. especially : to sit astride. 2. : to spread out irregularly : sprawl. 3. : to favor or seem to favor two apparently opposite sides. 4. : to execute a commodities market spread. transitive verb. 1. : to stand, sit, or be astride of. straddle a horse. campsites straddling the river. 2.
When you straddle something, you're sitting on it with one leg on each side — like straddling a horse or a fence. Unless you're using an old-fashioned side-saddle, you straddle a horse when you ride it. Gymnasts learn how to straddle the parallel bars, basically doing the splits on them.
Straddle definition: to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.. See examples of STRADDLE used in a sentence.
1. To walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart, especially to sit astride. 2. To spread out in a disorderly way; sprawl. 3. To appear to favor both sides of an issue. 4. To place a bet in poker before the cards are dealt that is twice the amount of the big blind when one is immediately to the left of the big blind. n. 1.
straddle something to cross, or exist on both sides of, a river, a road or an area of land. The mountains straddle the French-Swiss border. straddle something to exist within, or include, different periods of time, activities or groups of people. a writer who straddles two cultures. Word Origin.
straddle something to exist within, or include, different periods of time, activities, or groups of people a writer who straddles two cultures. See straddle in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: straddle. Definition of straddle verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.
Noun. Idiom. Filter. verb. straddled, straddles, straddling. To place oneself with a leg on either side of; stand or sit astride of. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To spread (the legs) wide apart. Webster's New World. To be on both sides of; extend over or across. A car straddling the centerline. American Heritage.
A straddle involves the purchase or sale of an equal number of puts and calls with the same terms at the same time. Where the investor expects a sharp movement in the share price, but is unsure of the direction it will take, the long straddle may be appropriate.
straddle. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English strad‧dle /ˈstrædl/ verb [ transitive] 1 to sit or stand with your legs on either side of someone or something The photo shows him dressed in leather, straddling a motorbike. 2 if something straddles a line, road, or river, part of it is on one side and part on the other side ...
