circumstances
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
circumstance/ˈsɜːkəmstəns/
▶noun
- 1 a fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action.
- 2 (circumstances) one's state of financial or material welfare.
- 3 archaic ceremony and public display: pomp and circumstance.
– phrases
under (or in) the circumstances given the difficult nature of the situation.
under (or in) no circumstances never.
under (or in) the circumstances given the difficult nature of the situation.
under (or in) no circumstances never.
– derivatives
circumstanced adjective.
circumstanced adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. circonstance or L. circumstantia, from circumstare ‘encircle, encompass’.
'circumstances' also found in these Oxford entries:
accommodation
- account
- aggravated
- allowance
- as
- assurance
- automatic
- background
- boat
- body
- bond
- casework
- chin
- circs
- circumstance
- coincidence
- compassionate leave
- condition
- conspire
- constant
- context
- corpus delicti
- day
- defer
- differential
- disadvantage
- disadvantageous
- doctrinaire
- else
- entangle
- facultative
- fain
- fair
- flexible
- force majeure
- guard
- hang
- hold
- indignity
- infallibility
- it
- justifiable homicide
- living will
- logical
- lorry
- love
- manslaughter
- means test
- narrow
- native
