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1. The general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
   "the present international situation is dangerous"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation";
   - state of affairs
    
2. A condition or position in which you find yourself
   "the unpleasant situation of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation";
   - position
    
3. A complex, critical or unusual difficulty
   "the dangerous situation developed suddenly"; "that's quite a situation"; "no human situation is simple"
    
4. Physical position in relation to the surroundings
   "the situations are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides";
   - site
    
5. A job in an organization
   - position, post, berth, office, place

Derived forms: situations

Type of: business, condition, difficultness, difficulty, fix [informal], hole [informal], jam [informal], job, kettle of fish [informal], line, line of work, mess [informal], muddle [informal], occupation, pickle [informal], place, position, state, status

Encyclopedia: Situation, objective, action, results, aftermath