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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   circumstances
       n 1: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including
            everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may
            be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck
            of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that
            was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate,
            luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
       2: a person's financial situation (good or bad); "he found
          himself in straitened circumstances"