Meaning of crisis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
2. attack; fit
3. A crucial or decisive point or situation, especially a difficult or unstable situation involving an impending change.
4. An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
5. A sudden change in the course of a disease or fever, toward either improvement or deterioration.
6. A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
7. An emotionally stressful event or traumatic change in a person's life.
8. A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
9. A point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved.
10. A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
11. a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something, esp in a sequence of events or a disease
12. an unstable period, esp one of extreme trouble or danger in politics, economics, etc
13. (Pathology) pathol a sudden change, for better or worse, in the course of a disease. Also (archaic): crise
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14. a turning point, as in a sequence of events, for better or for worse.
15. a condition of instability, as in international relations, that leads to a decisive change.
16. a personal tragedy, emotional upheaval, or the like.

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Examples

“The financial crisis could have been avoided and was the result of poor decision making both in Washington and at top financial firms that fostered a culture of excessive risk taking, according to a draft report written by Democrats on a panel that investigated the meltdown and obtained by Reuters.”

“The big question, I believe, is whether the Italian and maybe Spanish crises are the kind of thing that might be brought under control by ECB bond purchases. This is often phrased in terms of whether they are facing liquidity or solvency problems; but I think it’s better phrased in terms of the possibility of self-fulfilling crises, a la Obstfeld. […] So there is a reasonable case that what we’re seeing in Italy is a self-fulfilling crisis trying to happen, in which fear of default is precisely what leads to default.”

“Are they right? Is pessimism correct? Could the state of the world, like the stripes on a barbershop pole, keep sinking lower and lower? It’s easy to see why people feel that way: every day the news is filled with stories about war, terrorism, crime, pollution, inequality, drug abuse, and oppression. And it’s not just the headlines we’re talking about; it’s the op-eds and long-form stories as well. Magazine covers warn us of coming anarchies, plagues, epidemics, collapses, and so many “crises” (farm, health, retirement, welfare, energy, deficit) that copywriters have had to escalate to the redundant “serious crisis.” Whether or not the world really is getting worse, the nature of news will interact with the nature of cognition to make us think that it is. News is about things that happen, not things that don’t happen.”

“I'm having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.”

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