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| NOUN | 1 | situation, state of affairs | The general state of things |
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| 2 | situation, position | A condition or position in which you find yourself | |
| 3 | situation | A complex or critical or unusual difficulty | |
| 4 | situation, site | Physical position in relation to the surroundings | |
| 5 | situation, position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place | A job in an organization |
| Sounds | sih.chuwey'shahn |
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| Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2521 more rhymes in ahn... |
| Meaning | The general state of things. The combination of circumstances at a given time. |
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| Examples | "the present international situation is dangerous"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt |
| Synonyms | state of affairs |
| Broader | state |
| Narrower | absurd, the absurd; acceptance; ballgame, new ballgame; challenge; childlessness; complication; crowding; disequilibrium; element; environment; equilibrium; exclusion; goldfish bowl, fish bowl, fishbowl; hotbed; inclusion; intestacy; picture, scene; prison, prison house; rejection; size, size of it; square one; status quo; thing |
| Meaning | A condition or position in which you find yourself. |
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| Examples | "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation" |
| Synonyms | position |
| Broader | condition, status |
| Narrower | place, shoes; poverty trap; soup; stymie, stymy |
| Meaning | A complex or critical or unusual difficulty. |
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| Examples | "the dangerous situation developed suddenly"; "that's quite a situation"; "no human situation is simple" |
| Broader | difficulty |
| Narrower | conflict of interest; crisis; crunch; hornet's nest, hornets' nest; hot potato; how-do-you-do, how-d'ye-do; imbroglio, embroilment; Mexican standoff; nightmare, incubus; no-win situation; pass, strait, straits; purgatory; swamp; time bomb, ticking bomb; tinderbox; urgency; deadlock, dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill; quicksand |
| Meaning | Physical position in relation to the surroundings. |
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| Synonyms | site |
| Broader | position, place |
| Narrower | active site; close quarters; locus; locus of infection; restriction site; antigenic determinant, determinant, epitope |
| Verbs | situate |
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