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conjuncture en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈkənd͡ʒʌŋkt͡ʃɚ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French conjoncture.

Meanings

1. A combination of events or circumstances; a conjunction; a union.
   • To be sitting, at so pleasant a conjuncture of one's courses, in oneself, by oneself, that I think it will freely be admitted is a way no worse than another, and better than some, of whiling away an instant of leisure. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
2. A set of circumstances causing a crisis; a juncture.
   • [I]n his later years, he [James II of England] repeatedly, at conjunctures such as have often inspired timorous and delicate women with heroic courage, showed a pusillanimous anxiety about his personal safety. 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 635–636:

Forms

Deriveds

conjunctural

Translations (26)

tr konjonktür (combination of events or circumstances) · mk единство (combination of events or circumstances) · es conjuntura (combination of events or circumstances) · uk кон'юнкту́ра (combination of events or circumstances) · ru конъюнкту́ра (set of circumstances causing a crisis) · bg стече́ние на обстоя́телствата (combination of events or circumstances) · gv co-whailtys (combination of events or circumstances) · be кан'юнкту́ра (set of circumstances causing a crisis) · ur موضع (combination of events or circumstances) · cs shoda okolností (combination of events or circumstances) · ru положе́ние дел (combination of events or circumstances) · nl conjunctuur (combination of events or circumstances) · el συγκυρία (combination of events or circumstances) · uk кон'юнкту́ра (set of circumstances causing a crisis) · ru конъюнкту́ра (combination of events or circumstances) · bg конюнкту́ра (set of circumstances causing a crisis) · mk конјунктура (set of circumstances causing a crisis) · pt conjuntura (combination of events or circumstances) · fr conjoncture (combination of events or circumstances) · de Konjunktur (combination of events or circumstances) · ru стече́ние обстоя́тельств (set of circumstances causing a crisis) · be кан'юнкту́ра (combination of events or circumstances) · ru положе́ние дел (set of circumstances causing a crisis) · fi konjunktuuri (combination of events or circumstances) · ru стече́ние обстоя́тельств (combination of events or circumstances) · uk збіг обста́вин (combination of events or circumstances)