situation

Noun

• a job in an organization
  • he occupied a post in the treasury
    

• physical position in relation to the surroundings
  • the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides
    

• a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
  • the dangerous situation developed suddenly
    
  • that's quite a situation
    
  • no human situation is simple
    

• a condition or position in which you find yourself
  • the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils
    
  • found herself in a very fortunate situation
    

• the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
  • the present international situation is dangerous
    
  • wondered how such a state of affairs had come about
    
  • eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation- Franklin D.Roosevelt
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  position , post , berth , office , spot , billet , place , site , state of affairs