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English
Etymology
From French conjoncture.
Pronunciation
Noun
conjuncture (plural conjunctures)
- A combination of events or circumstances; a conjunction; a union.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, : Olympia Press, →OCLC:To be sitting, at so pleasant a conjuncture of one's courses, in oneself, by oneself, that I think it will freely be admitted is a way no worse than another, and better than some, of whiling away an instant of leisure.
- A set of circumstances causing a crisis; a juncture.
1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 635–636:n his later years, he repeatedly, at conjunctures such as have often inspired timorous and delicate women with heroic courage, showed a pusillanimous anxiety about his personal safety.
Derived terms
Translations
combination of events or circumstances
set of circumstances causing a crisis
Further reading
Latin
Participle
conjūnctūre
- vocative masculine singular of conjūnctūrus