Usually means: No-win situation, contradictory rules.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word catch-22:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. catch-22: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. catch-22: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Catch-22: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catch-22, catch-22: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Catch-22, catch-22: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Catch-22, catch-22: Wiktionary
  7. Catch-22: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Catch-22: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Catch-22: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Catch-22: Dictionary.com
  11. Catch-22: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. catch-22: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Catch-22: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Catch-22: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catch-22, catch-22: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Catch-22)

noun:  (idiomatic) A difficult situation from which there is no escape because it involves mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Catch-22. [(idiomatic) A difficult situation from which there is no escape because it involves mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.]

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