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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predicament |
| Synonyms: | box*, clutch, contingency, crisis, crunch, difficulty, emergency, exigency, hardship, juncture, necessity, oppression, pass, plight, pressure, strait, stress, tight spot, tight squeeze, turning point*, zero hour |
| Antonyms: | advantage, blessing, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turning point |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | critical juncture |
| Synonyms: | axis, change, climacteric, climax, contingency, crisis, critical mass, critical moment, critical period, critical point, crossing, crossroads, crucial moment, crucial occurrence, crucial period, crunch, crux, culmination, cusp, decisive moment, defining moment, development, emergency, exigency, high noon, hinge, juncture, kairotic moment, moment of truth, moment of truth, nexus, pass, peak, peripeteia, pinch, pivot, pivotal moment, point of no return, race against time, rising action, shift, strait, transition, turn of the tide, twist, when push comes to shove, zero hour, zero hour |
| Main Entry: | eleventh hour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the latest possible moment |
| Synonyms: | high time, just in time, last minute, nick of time, the last moment, zero hour |
| Main Entry: | exigency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, criticalness, crossroad, demand, demandingness, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, exigence, extremity, fix, hardship, imperativeness, jam, juncture, necessity, need, needfulness, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pressingness, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape, stress, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour |
| Main Entry: | target date |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time limit |
| Synonyms: | A-day, D-day, H-hour, deadline, target day, term, terminal date, time allotment, time frame, zero hour |
| Main Entry: | exigence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crisis |
| Synonyms: | circumstance, climacteric, crossroad, difficulty, dilemma, emergency, exigency, fix, hardship, head, juncture, pickle, pinch, predicament, quandary, turning point, urgency, zero hour |
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