crisis
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek κρίσις (krísis, “a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute”), from κρίνω (krínō, “pick out, choose, decide, judge”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]crisis (plural crises)
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
- 2011 January 25, Dave Clarke, “Panel says financial crisis avoidable”, in Reuters:
- 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
- 2011 August 7, Paul Krugman, “A Self-Fulfilling Euro Crisis? (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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.
- (medicine) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
- (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- I'm having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.
- (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
Derived terms
[edit]- acrisia
- Asian songbird crisis
- behavioral crisis
- budget crisis
- climate crisis
- crisis actor
- crisis center
- crisis hotline
- crisis intervention
- crisisless
- crisis line
- crisis management
- crisis response team
- crisis-ridden
- crisitunity
- currency crisis
- diabetic crisis
- ecocrisis
- economic crisis
- energy crisis
- epicrisis
- epistemic crisis
- Eurocrisis
- European debt crisis
- existential crisis
- financial crisis
- healing crisis
- humanitarian crisis
- identity crisis
- international crisis
- Messinian salinity crisis
- midlife crisis
- mid-life crisis
- minicrisis
- multicrisis
- never waste a crisis
- noncrisis
- oxygenation crisis
- oxygen crisis
- permacrisis
- personal crisis
- polycrisis
- postcrisis
- precrisis
- psychedelic crisis
- psychological crisis
- quarter-life crisis
- renal crisis
- replication crisis
- scissors crisis
- software crisis
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[edit]Translations
[edit]crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point
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unstable situation in political, social, economic or military affairs
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sudden change in the course of a disease
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traumatic or stressful change in a person's life
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point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved
Further reading
[edit]- “crisis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “crisis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “crisis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Asturian
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[edit]crisis f (plural crisis)
Catalan
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[edit]crisis
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek κρίσις (krísis).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]crisis f (plural crises or crisissen, diminutive crisisje n)
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: krisis
Old French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]crisis oblique singular, f (oblique plural crisis, nominative singular crisis, nominative plural crisis)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek κρίσις (krísis, “a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute”), from κρίνω (krínō, “pick out, choose, decide, judge”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkɾisis/ [ˈkɾi.sis]
Audio (Argentina): (file) Audio (Latin America): (file) - Rhymes: -isis
- Syllabification: cri‧sis
Noun
[edit]crisis f (plural crisis)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “crisis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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