conjuncture

conjuncture
n
1. circumstances, state of affairs, set of conditions; context, environment, total situation, status quo, Inf. the picture or whole picture, Inf. the story.
2. coincidence, concurrence, co-occurrence; simultaneity, simultaneousness; contemporaneity, contemporaneousness; coexistence, concomittance.
3. crisis, crux, crunch; crossroads, turning point, critical moment or point, crucial moment, juncture, critical juncture, moment of truth, zero hour, Mil.H-hour; emergency, exigency; predicament, plight, dilemma, quandary, strait, extremity; pinch, rub, scrape, squeeze, push, Inf. hold, Inf. clutch.
4. combination, unification, union, connection, junction, conjugation, accouplement, joinder; merger, incorporation, consolidation, amalgamation, conglomeration, engrossment; joining, linking, splicing, uniting, binding, bonding, yoking; connecting, conjoining, coupling; meeting, touching, bordering, edging, abutting, skirting.

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