Usually means: Set of circumstances at moment.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. situation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. situation: Merriam-Webster
  3. situation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. situation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. situation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. situation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Situation, situation: Wordnik
  8. situation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. situation: Wiktionary
  10. situation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. situation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. situation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. situation: Dictionary.com
  14. situation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Situation (Sartre), Situation (Yazoo song), Situation (album), Situation (song), Situation, The Situation (Jersey Shore), The Situation (TV personality), The Situation (film), The Situation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Situation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. situation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. situation: Rhymezone
  19. Situation (f), situation, situation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. situation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. situation: FreeDictionary.org
  22. situation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. situation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. situation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. situation: Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
  3. Situation (album), situation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. situation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. situation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. situation: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. situation: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Situation, The Situation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
noun:  The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
noun:  The place in which something is situated; a location.
noun:  Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
noun:  (UK) A position of employment; a post.
noun:  A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
noun:  (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
noun:  (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.

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