(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
You use ~ 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 ~ was under control...
She’s in a hopeless ~...
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft poss N
2.
The ~ of a building or town is the kind of surroundings that it has. (FORMAL)
The garden is in a beautiful ~ 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