Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - situation

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