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crisis
/ˈkɹaɪsɪs/
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What does crisis mean?
noun
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
- A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
- Orgasm
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IPA pronunciation
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The country's immediate economic challenge is an acute financial crisis that is undermining monetary stability and preventing disbursement of foreign development assistance.
When once the crisis was passed, it must not be supposed that, as with many other people, nothing remained of it all.
More book examples (3)
He was still a young man, perhaps thirty-five, when the most trying crisis in the history of his people came upon them.
It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills.
But it is in a dangerous crisis, when safety seems to hang upon a second, that the telephone is at its best.