CONJUNCTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conjuncture mean? 

• CONJUNCTURE (noun)
  The noun CONJUNCTURE has 1 sense:

1. a critical combination of events or circumstances

  Familiarity information: CONJUNCTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONJUNCTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A critical combination of events or circumstances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("conjuncture" is a kind of...):

juncture; occasion (an event that occurs at a critical time)

 Context examples 

He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times of eating; upon which side they lay in bed; with which hand they wipe their posteriors; take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green; but quite different, when he thought only of raising an insurrection, or burning the metropolis.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)