• n.
    ⦿a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
    lexical concept
  • at that juncture he had no idea what to do
  • he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:critical point
  2. enl:crossroads
  3. enl:juncture
wn:interlingual indexili:i110679

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • critical pointcrossroadsjuncture
  • critical point