Usually means: Set of circumstances at moment.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. situation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. situation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. situation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. situation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. situation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Situation, situation: Wordnik
  7. situation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. situation: Wiktionary
  9. situation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. situation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. situation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. situation: Dictionary.com
  13. situation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. 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
  15. Situation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. situation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. situation: Rhymezone
  18. Situation (f), situation, situation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. situation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. situation: Free Dictionary
  21. situation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. situation: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. situation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  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 (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 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. Situation: Geography Dictionary

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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