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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
condition/kənˈdɪʃn/

▶noun

1 the state of something or someone, with regard to appearance, fitness, or working order.
■ an illness or medical problem.

■ archaic social position.

2 (conditions) circumstances affecting the functioning or existence of something.

3 a state of affairs that must exist before something else is possible.

▶verb

1 have a significant influence on.
■ train or accustom to behave in a certain way.

■ (as adj. conditioned) relating to or denoting automatic responses established by training to an ordinarily neutral stimulus.

2 bring into the desired state for use.
■ (often as adj. conditioned) make fit and healthy.

3 apply conditioner to (the hair).

4 set prior requirements on (something) before it can occur.

– phrases
in (or out of) condition in a fit (or unfit) physical state.
on condition that with the stipulation that.

– origin ME: from OFr. condicion (n.), condicionner (v.), from L. condicio(n-) ‘agreement’, from condicere ‘agree upon’, from con- ‘with’ + dicere ‘say’.

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