conjuncture
[kuh n-juhngk-cher]
- a combination of circumstances; a particular state of affairs.
- a critical state of affairs; crisis.
- conjunction; joining.
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Origin of conjuncture
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Related Words for conjuncture
elbow, seam, affair, crisis, ceremony, story, thing, holiday, development, business, circumstance, incident, situation, celebration, case, accident, episode, appearance, experience, matterExamples from the Web for conjuncture
Contemporary Examples of conjuncture
The role of Islam in conjuncture with individual rights, politics, and women will lead to some turbulent times.
Women in the World 2011 Video HighlightsFebruary 10, 2012
Historical Examples of conjuncture
But Mrs Mackenzie was by no means so proud at the present conjuncture of affairs.
Miss MackenzieAnthony Trollope
At this conjuncture of affairs, who but is reminded of the youth and the education of Gargantua?
OxfordAndrew Lang
He did not perceive that society was in a conjuncture of decline.
FolkwaysWilliam Graham Sumner
My crew (as always in that conjuncture) put up their awning and struck work.
AppearancesGoldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
But I think it, at this conjuncture, my duty to declare that I will give no pledges.
Life and Letters of Lord MacaulayGeorge Otto Trevelyan
conjuncture
- a combination of events, esp a critical one
- rare a union; conjunction
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Word Origin and History for conjuncture
c.1600, from French conjoncture (16c.), from Modern Latin *conjunctura, from Latin coniunctus (see conjunct).
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