A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
Esimerkit
The Botanical Gardens are in a delightful situation on the river bank.
...he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the situation of Badger's house exactly suited him and made him feel at home; while the Rat, who slept every night in a bedroom the windows of which opened on a breezy river, naturally felt the atmosphere still and oppressive.
[Hibíscus] speciòsus is the most splendid, and deserves a situation in every garden.
The United States is in an awkward situation with debt default looming.
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
When he was nineteen, he suddenly left the 'Co-op' office, and got a situation in Nottingham.
You take a morning paper from the top of the stack
And read the situations from the front to the back