condition
/kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ noun A2- A state or quality. · National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.· The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
- A particular state of being. · Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.· Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.
- The health status of a medical patient. · My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- A requirement or prerequisite. · Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.· What other planets might have the right conditions for life?
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
Plural conditions
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King of France, who was formidable still in spite of his recent reverses; and it was necessary, therefore, to have recourse to some profitable scheme, which was a matter of great difficulty in the impoverished condition of exhausted Italy.
You don’t comply with the conditions if you budge from the office during that time.’
“Indeed they are not; but God has supplied man with the intelligence that enables him to overcome the limitations of natural conditions.
The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.
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