Dictionary entry

Crisis

Pronunciation: /ˈkrʌɪsɪs/

Pronunciation

/ˈkrʌɪsɪs/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ကပ်ဆိုက်သောကာလ

Definition

crisis /'kraÇsÇs/ n ( pl crises /-si:z/) [C,U] ကပ္ဆိုက္ေသာ ကာလ။ ေဘးက်ပ္နံက်ပ္ ကာလ။ အေရးအခင္းကာလ။ ေသေရး ရွင္ေရးကာလ။ လက္ၿပဲ။ financial/ economic/ political/ domestic crises ❍ a crisis in southern Africa ❍ come to/ reach a crisis ❍ a government in crisis (ie going through a difficult period) ❍ In times of crisis it's good to have a friend to turn to. ❍ The fever has passed its crisis (ie its most dangerous point). ❍ The government is holding crisis talks with the unions. See also CRITICAL ၃

Examples

  1. [financial/economic/political crisis] : A period of economic/financial/political crisis
  2. [defuse/resolve/solve a crisis] : Talks have so far failed to resolve the crisis (=end it).
  3. [crisis in] : The current crisis in the farming industry
  4. [in crisis] : We admit that the nursing profession is in crisis.
  5. He’s the kind of person who copes well in a crisis.
  6. [a mid-life crisis] : Perhaps your father is having some sort of mid-life crisis.