Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A combination, as of events or circumstances.
  • noun A critical set of circumstances; a crisis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A coming or joining together; the state of being joined; meeting: combination; union; connection; association.
  • noun Combination of circumstances or affairs; especially, a critical state of affairs; a crisis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination.
  • noun A crisis produced by a combination of circumstances; complication or combination of events or circumstances; plight resulting from various conditions.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A combination of events or circumstances; a conjunction; a union.
  • noun A set of circumstances causing a crisis; a juncture.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a critical combination of events or circumstances

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Examples

  • There is a short-term conjuncture, with the weakness of the US banks and the strength of the Canadian dollar, that encourages banks to take over financial institutions in the United

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • "The loss of such a man, in such a crisis; of a man who possessed so large and growing a share of the public confidence, and whose administration has recently borrowed new lustre from the crowning achievements of our armies; of a ruler whom victory was inspiring with the wise and paternal magnanimity which sought to make the conciliation as cordial as the strife has been deadly: the loss of such a President, at such a conjuncture, is an afflicting dispensation which bows a disappointed and stricken nation in sorrow more deep, sincere, and universal than ever before supplicated the compassion of pitying Heaven."

    The Sin of Reviling, and Its Work 1865

  • Such a time and such a conjuncture was the American Revolution.

    Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers 1846

  • In this current "conjuncture" we can at least get the numbers right, at 50/50, as we continue in the protracted struggle for complete transformation of all unequal power relations in our society and a better life for all.

    CONTENTS: 2007

  • In this current "conjuncture" we can at least get the numbers right, at 50/50, as we continue in the protracted struggle for complete transformation of all unequal power relations in our society and a better life for all.

    Getting the balance right 2007

  • Even in the shorter gāthās we may eliminate the common stock of refrains, and yet discern, in each residuum, a distinctly and pathetically individual note, telling its own story of a supreme 'conjuncture' seized, of Nibbana (in its later Sanskrit form, Nirvāṇā) or Arahantship won.

    Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

  • "conjuncture" that is so central to the theory of America in Decline is a nod to the work of Althusser who injected that concept deep into the communist discussoins of the 70s and 80s.

    Kasama 2009

  • All of the left-of-centre governments in Latin America -- even that of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez -- have had to trim their sails to a greater or lesser degree, as they find their place within the conjuncture of forces in which their countries are enmeshed -- popular support versus well-financed domestic opposition, the global marketplace, and, of course, the brooding presence of the US.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • In the current conjuncture of forces, a police union only exacerbates the culture of impunity that envelops police forces in this country.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from Paul Wilke wrote 30 weeks 1 day ago an ancient ritual that has to do with the conjuncture of the harvest of barley and hops, horny old men and just plain foolishness.

    Strange Hunting Traditions 2009

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