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Noun
/kənˈjəNGkCHər/,
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conjunctures, plural;
  1. A combination of events
    • - the peculiar political conjunctures that led to war
  2. A state of affairs
    • - the wider political conjuncture

  1. a critical combination of events or circumstances
  2. In general, a conjuncture is a period marked by some watershed event which separates different epochs.
  3. The financial crisis of 2007 to the present is a crisis triggered by a liquidity shortfall in the United States banking system. It has resulted in the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments and downturns in stock markets around the world. ...
  4. Relations between countries can follow a curve. This curve can be shaped by the domestic conditions and policies of the countries and international conditions. ...
  5. (conjoncture). The central concept of the Marxist science of politics (cf. Lenin’s ‘current moment’); it denotes the exact balance of forces, state of overdetermination (q.v.) of the contradictions at any given moment to which political tactics must be applied.