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situation
A	noun
	1	position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation
				a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚occupation; business; job; line of work; line ╚position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation ╚bailiffship ╚attorneyship ╚apprenticeship ╚apostleship ╚ambassadorship ╚admiralty ╚accountantship ╚academicianship
	2	site, situation
				physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
		Category Tree: entity ╚location ╚point ╚position; place ╚site, situation ╚restriction site ╚locus of infection ╚locus ╚active site
	3	situation, position
				a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation"
		Category Tree: state ╚condition; status ╚situation, position ╚stymie ╚soup ╚poverty trap ╚place; shoes
	4	situation, state of affairs
				the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fre
		Category Tree: state ╚situation, state of affairs ╚hotbed ╚goldfish bowl; fish bowl; fishbowl ╚exclusion ╚equilibrium ╚environment ╚element ╚disequilibrium ╚crowding ╚complication ╚childlessness ╚challenge ╚ballgame; new ballgame ╚acceptance
	5	situation
				a complex or critical or unusual difficulty; "the dangerous situation developed suddenly"; "that's quite a situation"; "no human situation is simple"
		Category Tree: state ╚condition; status ╚difficulty ╚situation ╚swamp ╚purgatory ╚pass; strait; straits ╚no-win situation ╚nightmare; incubus ╚Mexican standoff ╚imbroglio; embroilment ╚how-do-you-do; how-d'ye-do ╚hot potato ╚hornet's nest; hornets' nest ╚crunch ╚crisis ╚conflict of interest

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