Synonyms of the word

situation

• n. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
• n. The place in which something is situated; a location.
• n. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
• n. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
• n. (Britain) A position of employment; a post.
• n. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.

berth

• n. A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).
• n. Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.).
• n. A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
• n. (nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
• n. A job or position, especially on a ship.
• n. (sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
• n. (sports) position on the field of play.
• v. (transitive) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth.
• v. (transitive) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to.

billet

• n. A short informal letter.
• n. A written order to quarter soldiers.
• n. A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
• n. An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
• n. (figuratively) Berth; position.
• v. (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
• v. (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
• v. (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
• n. (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
• n. A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
• n. (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
• n. (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
• n. A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.

business

• n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
• n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
• n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
• n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
• n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
• n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
• n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
• n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
• n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
• n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
• n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
• n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
• n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
• n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
• n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
• adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
• adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
• adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

condition

• n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
• n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
• n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
• n. The health status of a medical patient.
• n. The state or quality.
• n. A particular state of being.
• n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
• v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
• v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
• v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
• v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
• v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
• v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
• v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…

difficulty

• n. The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
• n. An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
• n. Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning.

job

• n. A task.
• n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
• n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
• n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
• n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
• n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
• n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
• n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
• v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
• v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
• v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
• v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
• v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
• v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
• v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
• v. To hire or let in periods of service.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

occupation

• n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service,…
• n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
• n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

office

• n. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly.
• n. A position of responsibility.
• n. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
• n. (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
• n. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral…
• n. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
• n. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
• n. (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
• n. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
• n. (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
• n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly.
• n. (figuratively) The staff of such places.
• n. (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly.
• n. (now in the plural, dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen,…
• n. (Britain law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown…
• n. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
• n. (figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
• n. (Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
• n. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and…
• v. To provide (someone) with an office.
• v. (intransitive) To have an office.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

post

• n. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post.
• n. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
• n. A pole in a battery.
• n. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
• n. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
• n. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
• n. (sports) A goalpost.
• n. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers;…
• v. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
• v. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
• v. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
• v. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
• v. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).
• n. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility…
• n. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of…
• n. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such…
• n. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
• n. An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
• n. A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person…
• n. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum.
• n. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
• n. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line…
• n. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
• n. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
• v. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
• v. To travel quickly; to hurry.
• v. (Britain) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
• v. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially…
• v. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
• adv. With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly.
• adv. Sent via the postal service.
• n. An assigned station; a guard post.
• n. An appointed position in an organization, job.
• v. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
• v. To assign to a station; to set; to place.
• prep. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
• n. (film, informal) Post-production.

site

• n. (obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
• n. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position.
• n. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation.
• n. The posture or position of a thing.
• n. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
• n. A website.
• n. (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
• n. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
• n. A part of the body which has been operated on.
• v. (architecture) To situate or place a building.

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

state

• n. A polity.
• n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
• n. High social standing or circumstance.
• n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random…
• v. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
• v. (transitive) To make known.
• adj. (obsolete) stately.

status

• n. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
• n. Prestige or high standing.
• n. A situation or state of affairs.
• n. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
• n. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message…