situation

  • 21SITUATION — s. f. Assiette, position d une ville, d une place de guerre, d une maison, d un château, d un jardin, etc. Belle situation. Situation avantageuse, commode, agréable. Voilà une vilaine situation. Cette ville est dans une situation favorable au… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 22Situation — Das Wort Situation bezeichnet die Lage oder Position, die Gebundenheit an Gegebenheiten oder Umstände. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Wortherkunft und Verwendung 2 Philosophie 3 Wissenschaftstheorie 4 …

    Deutsch Wikipedia

  • 23situation — sit|u|a|tion W1S1 [ˌsıtʃuˈeıʃən] n 1.) a combination of all the things that are happening and all the conditions that exist at a particular time in a particular place ▪ I explained the situation. in a ... situation ▪ She coped well in a difficult …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 24Situation — Konstellation; Lage; Zustand; Kontext; Umstand; Lebenslage; Status; Sachlage; Gegebenheit; Sachverhalt * * * Si|tu|a|ti|on [zitu̯a ts̮i̯o:n], die; , en …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 25situation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ general, overall, whole ▪ current, immediate, present ▪ international, local, national …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 26SITUATION — n. f. Position d’une ville, d’un château, d’une maison, d’un jardin, etc. Belle situation. Situation commode, agréable, pittoresque. Cette ville est dans une situation favorable au commerce. Il se dit figurément de l’état, de la position d’une… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 27situation — n. 1) to comprehend, grasp, take in a situation 2) to accept a situation 3) an awkward; crisis, emergency; critical; delicate; desperate; embarrassing; explosive; fluid; hopeless, no win (colloq.); intolerable; life and death; stable; tricky;… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 28situation */*/*/ — UK [ˌsɪtʃuˈeɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun [countable] Word forms situation : singular situation plural situations Metaphor: Situations and states are like places. A pleasant/happy situation is safe, like your home, and a bad situation is like an unpleasant… …

    English dictionary

  • 29situation — / sItSu eISFn/ noun (C) 1 a combination of all the things that are happening and all the conditions that exist at a particular time in a particular place: In the present situation, I wouldn t advise you to sell your house. | You re putting me in… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 30situation — sit|u|a|tion [ ,sıtʃu eıʃn ] noun count *** 1. ) the set of conditions that exist at a particular time in a particular place: If the situation had been different, their plan might have succeeded. concern about the current situation south of the… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English