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con·junc·ture (k

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1. A combination, as of events or circumstances: "the power that lies in the conjuncture of faith and fatherland" (Conor Cruise O'Brien).

2. A critical set of circumstances; a crisis: "reports on the deteriorating world conjuncture and the disappointment of earlier hopes" (Financial Times).

conjuncture [kənˈdʒʌŋktʃə]

1. a combination of events, esp a critical one

2. Rare a union; conjunction

conjunctural adj

Conjuncture the meeting of events or circumstances.

Examples: conjuncture of accidents, 1736; of affairs, 1768; of atmosphere or other circumstances, 1853; grand conjuncture (when several planets or stars are found together); of principles.

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Noun

conjuncture - a critical combination of events or circumstances

juncture, occasion - an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"

Translations

conjuncture [kənˈdʒʌŋktʃəʳ] N → coyuntura f

conjuncture

n → Zusammentreffen nt

conjuncture [kənˈdʒʌŋktʃəʳ] n (frm) → congiuntura

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juncture occasion	As there are three things which claim an equal rank in the state, freedom, riches, and virtue (for as for the fourth, rank, it is an attendant on two of the others, for virtue and riches are the origin of family), it is evident, that the conjuncture of the rich and the poor make up a free state; but that all three tend to an aristocracy more than any other, except that which is truly so, which holds the first rank. A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context For the bourgeois of Paris were aware that it is not sufficient to pray in every conjuncture, and to plead for the franchises of the city, and they had always in reserve, in the garret of the town hall, a few good rusty arquebuses. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context He considered with some irony the philosophy which he had developed for himself, for it had not been of much use to him in the conjuncture he had passed through; and he wondered whether thought really helped a man in any of the critical affairs of life: it seemed to him rather that he was swayed by some power alien to and yet within himself, which urged him like that great wind of Hell which drove Paolo and Francesca ceaselessly on. Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context	conjugated protein conjugation conjugation tube Conjugational Conjugial Conjugium conjunct conjunction conjunction-reduction Conjunctional conjunctiva Conjunctival conjunctival layer of bulb conjunctival layer of eyelids conjunctival veins conjunctive conjunctive adverb conjunctive eye movement Conjunctive mood Conjunctive tissue Conjunctively Conjunctiveness conjunctivitis conjunctivitis arida Conjunctly conjuncture conjunto conjuration Conjurator conjure conjure away conjure man conjure up Conjurement conjurer conjuring conjuring trick conjuror Conjury conk conk out conker conkers Conkling conn Conn's syndrome Conn. Connacht Connaraceae Connarus Connarus guianensis	Conjunctiveness conjunctives conjunctives conjunctives conjunctivitis conjunctivitis conjunctivitis conjunctivitis arida conjunctivitis arida conjunctivitis neonatorum conjunctivitis neonatorum conjunctivitis neonatorum conjunctivitis of newborn Conjunctivitis, allergic Conjunctivitis, bacterial Conjunctivitis, bacterial Conjunctivitis, bacterial Conjunctivitis, viral Conjunctivitis, viral Conjunctivitis, viral conjunctivobuccostomy Conjunctivodacryocystorhinostomy conjunctivoma conjunctivoplasty conjunctivoralostomy conjunctivorhinostomy conjunctly conjunctly conjuncts conjuncts conjuncture conjunctures conjunctures conjunto Conjunto Instrumental Nuestro Tiempo conjuntos conjuration conjuration conjuration conjurations conjurations Conjurator conjure conjure conjure conjure conjure away conjure man conjure up conjure up conjure up conjured conjured conjured Conjurement conjurer conjurer conjurer conjurers conjurers conjures

As there are three things which claim an equal rank in the state, freedom, riches, and virtue (for as for the fourth, rank, it is an attendant on two of the others, for virtue and riches are the origin of family), it is evident, that the conjuncture of the rich and the poor make up a free state; but that all three tend to an aristocracy more than any other, except that which is truly so, which holds the first rank.

A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context

For the bourgeois of Paris were aware that it is not sufficient to pray in every conjuncture, and to plead for the franchises of the city, and they had always in reserve, in the garret of the town hall, a few good rusty arquebuses.

Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context

He considered with some irony the philosophy which he had developed for himself, for it had not been of much use to him in the conjuncture he had passed through; and he wondered whether thought really helped a man in any of the critical affairs of life: it seemed to him rather that he was swayed by some power alien to and yet within himself, which urged him like that great wind of Hell which drove Paolo and Francesca ceaselessly on.

Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

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