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Noun: dilemma  di'le-mu or dI'le-mu
  1. A situation requiring a choice between equally unfavourable or mutually exclusive options
    "The manager faced a dilemma in choosing which employee to promote";
    - quandary

Derived forms: dilemmas

Type of: perplexity

Encyclopedia: Dilemma