From the OED: Situation - a. Position of affairs; combination of circumstances. Also in mod. usage, with premodifier, and designating: (a) the state or general circumstances of something at a particular time, as coal situation, etc. (and which is acknowledged to change from time to time); (b) a particular state of affairs or occasion existing independently, as standing credit situation, crisis ... More @Wikipedia
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