Crisis

Noun

 * 1) A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
 * 2) An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
 * 3) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die.
 * 4)  A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
 * 5)  A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

Derived terms

 * crisis management
 * currency crisis
 * financial crisis
 * economic crisis
 * international crisis
 * identity crisis
 * existential crisis
 * personal crisis
 * psychological crisis
 * midlife crisis
 * quarter-life crisis

Related terms

 * critic
 * critical
 * criticize
 * critique
 * criterion

Adjectives
mighty; momentous; great; tremendous supreme; fearful; serious; grave; domestic legislative; intense; emotional; economic agricultural; unprecedented; spiritual; psychological; political; industrial; national; moral; recurring; financial; banking; favorable; naive; interminable; contemporary;  unquiet;  distressing; religious; commercial; deplorable; revolutionary; majestic; peculiar; tragical;   approaching; memorable; nervous; over-estimated; exciting; sternest; rapid; diplomatic; noisy striking; desperate.

Verbs
aggravate—; avert—; confront with—; cope with—; face—; handle—; improve—; lead up to—; mark—; precipitate—; provoke—; reach—; suffer—;  toil over—; weather—; —besets; —grips; —grows; —indicates; —occurs; —passes; —wears off.

Thesaurus
bench mark, boom, bottoming out, breakers ahead, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, calamity, cardhouse, cardinal point, catastrophe, cause for alarm, chief thing, climacteric, climax, clutch, contingency, convergence of events, cooling off, core, cornerstone, critical juncture, critical moment, critical point, crossroads, crucial period, crunch, crux, danger, dangerous ground, depression, disaster, dollar crisis, dollar gap, downturn, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, emergency, endangerment, essence, essential, essential matter, exigency, expanding economy, expansion, extremity, financial crisis, fundamental, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, gist, gravamen, great point, growth, hazard, heart, high growth rate, high point, high pressure, hinge, house of cards, imperativeness, imperilment, important thing, issue, jeopardy, kernel, keystone, landmark, low, main point, main thing, market expansion, material point, meat, menace, milestone, nub, pass, peak, peaking, peril, pinch, pith, pivot, plight, predicament, press, pressure, prosperity, push, quicksand, real issue, recession, recovery, risk, rocks ahead, rub, salient point, sine qua non, slowdown, slump, storm clouds, strait, stress, substance, substantive point, tension, the bottom line, the point, thin ice, threat, turn, turning point, upturn, urgency, zero hour

Etymology
From κρίσις: < κρίνω:

Translations

 * Armenian:
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 * Czech:
 * Danish: vendepunkt,
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish:
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 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 境目 (さかいめ, sakaime)
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 * Arabic: (ʼázma)
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 危機, 危机 (wēijī)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: krisetilstand,
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 * German:
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, クライシス
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 * Telugu: సంక్షోభం


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vendepunkt,
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese: 分利 (ぶんり, bunri)
 * Russian:, криз


 * Arabic: (ʼázma)
 * Chinese: 危機, 危机 (wēijī)
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 * German:
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 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese:, クライシス
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:, livskris


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: breekpunt


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Noun

 * 1) crisis
 * 2) financial crisis

Derived terms

 * crisismanager

Noun

 * 1) A crisis
 * 2) An attack; fit

Derived terms

 * crisis de migraña