transcription, транскрипция: [ sɪtʃueɪʃ(ə)n ]
( situations)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
You use situation to refer generally to what is happening in a particular place at a particular time, or to refer to what is happening to you.
Army officers said the situation was under control...
She’s in a hopeless situation...
N-COUNT : usu with supp , oft poss N
2.
The situation of a building or town is the kind of surroundings that it has. ( FORMAL )
The garden is in a beautiful situation on top of a fold in the rolling Hampshire landscape.
= location
N-COUNT : usu supp N
3.
Situations Vacant is the title of a column or page in a newspaper where jobs are advertised. ( mainly BRIT; in AM, use Employment )
PHRASE : oft PHR n