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state of affairs is a noun meaning "the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time". It carries one recorded sense.
the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
“the present international situation is dangerous”
“wondered how such a state of affairs had come about”
“eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for state of affairs come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.