#crisis an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis"
supertype: state_of_affairs__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
subtype: Dunkirk a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat; "the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there"
subtype: exigency a pressing or urgent situation: "the health-care exigency"
subtype: critical_point__juncture__crossroads a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"
subtype: criticality a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining
subtype: flash_point.criticality__flashpoint point at which something is ready to blow up
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