to avert a crisis

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• avert — UK US /əˈvɜːt/ verb [T] ► to prevent something bad from happening: avert a crisis/disaster »He argued that the way to avert an economic crisis is for individuals to follow their usual spending habits. avert industrial action/a strike »By law, the …   Financial and business terms

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• Crisis (DC Comics) — A crisis in the DC Universe is an event with potentially great consequences, often involving multiple universes and sometimes even threatening their existence. From 1963 to 1985 the term crisis was used to describe the annual events in which the… …   Wikipedia

• crisis — cri|sis W2S2 [ˈkraısıs] n plural crises [ si:z] [U and C] [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: Greek krisis decision , from krinein; CRITERION] 1.) a situation in which there are a lot of problems that must be dealt with quickly so that the… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• crisis management — crisis manager. the techniques used, as by an employer or government, to avert or deal with strikes, riots, violence, or other crisis situations. [1960 65] * * * …   Universalium

• crisis management — crisis manager. the techniques used, as by an employer or government, to avert or deal with strikes, riots, violence, or other crisis situations. [1960 65] …   Useful english dictionary

• crisis — n. 1) to cause, precipitate, provoke, stir up a crisis 2) to aggravate a crisis 3) to avert, forestall a crisis 4) to defuse, overcome, settle a crisis; to ride out a crisis 5) an acute, grave, serious; impending; mounting crisis 6) a cabinet;… …   Combinatory dictionary

• avert — verb 1 prevent sth ADVERB ▪ narrowly ▪ Disaster was narrowly averted when two airliners almost collided above Detroit. VERB + AVERT ▪ try to ▪ be able to, ma …   Collocations dictionary

• crisis — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ acute, grave, major, serious, severe, terrible, worst ▪ the worst economic crisis for fifty years ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• crisis management — cri′sis man agement n. cvb soc the techniques used, as by an employer or government, to avert or deal with crisis situations, as strikes, riots, or violence • Etymology: 1960–65 cri′sis man ager, n …   From formal English to slang

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