Usually means: Severe disruption requiring urgent response.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. crisis: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. crisis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crisis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crisis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crisis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crisis, crisis: Wordnik
  7. crisis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crisis: Wiktionary
  9. crisis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crisis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crisis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. crisis: Dictionary.com
  13. crisis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crisis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Crisis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crisis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crisis: Rhymezone
  19. crisis, crisis, crisis (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crisis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. crisis: Free Dictionary
  22. crisis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. crisis: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. crisis: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. crisis: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crisis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. crisis: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CRISIS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. crisis: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crisis: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
noun:  An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
noun:  (medicine) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
noun:  (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
noun:  (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

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