Phrase Hound found 47 phrases and 19 compound words that contain crisis. The most common are listed below. Open crisis in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 47
- financial crisisAn episode of sharp instability in the global or a local financial system in which financial assets lose a significant proportion of their value, often caused by the bursting of an economic bubble.
- economic crisisA crisis caused by the general demand for goods within an economy falling below their supply, either temporarily or on a protracted basis, typically resulting in widespread bankruptcies of unproductive businesses and falling prices.
- energy crisisAn economic problem caused by a dwindling supply of energy, at an increasing price.
- crisis managementThe process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders.
- crisis interventionA time-limited intervention with a specific psychotherapeutic approach to immediately stabilize those in emotional crisis.
- identity crisisA crisis of personal identity.
- humanitarian crisisA singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well-being of a community or large group of people.
- mid-life crisisAn emotional period of doubt and anxiety sometimes experienced by middle-aged people who realize that their life is already half over.
- replication crisisA crisis caused by the problem that many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce, casting doubt on the meaningfulness of their results in light of the requirements of the scientific method.
- climate crisisSynonym of climate emergency: The dangerous situation in which anthropogenic climate change threatens to cause irreversible environmental damage.
- crisis actorA person employed to portray a disaster victim during emergency drills.
- Messinian salinity crisisA geological event, characterized by the partial desiccation of the Mediterranean basin.
- quarter-life crisisA situation resembling the mid-life crisis but taking place earlier, when roughly a quarter of one's adult life has passed, typically in one's twenties or thirties.
- existential crisisA state of panic or feeling of intense psychological discomfort about questions of existence.
- constitutional crisisA conflict between a government and its actions and a constitution and its provisions.
- oxygen crisisSynonym of oxygen catastrophe: An event during the oxygenation event of Earth's past, where the level of free oxygen in the environment exceeds the tolerance levels of most extant anaerobic life.
- Cuban Missile CrisisA diplomatic crisis in 1962, between the United States and the Soviet Union, over Soviet nuclear missiles placed in Cuba. It almost led to nuclear war.
- European debt crisisA multiyear debt crisis that took place in the European Union from 2009 until the mid to late 2010s.
- budget crisisA situation in which the legislative and the executive in a presidential system deadlock and are unable to pass a budget.
- crisis centera place staffed by volunteers who give help and advice to people experiencing difficulties
- crisis lineSynonym of crisis hotline: A telephone number people can call to get immediate emergency telephone counseling.
- currency crisisA type of financial crisis during which the value of foreign denominated debt will rise drastically relative to the declining value of the home currency.
- international crisisA sequence of interactions between the governments of two or more sovereign states in severe conflict, short of actual war, but involving the perception of a dangerously high probability of war.
- personal crisisA type of crisis in which a person can no longer cope with a situation, preceded by an event of an extraordinary nature triggering extreme tension and stress within a person.
- healing crisisAn acute worsening of health during the process of healing, brought about by the elimination of toxins from the body.
Compound words 19
- epicrisisA critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
- polycrisisA series of crises occurring at the same time.
- anticrisisIntended to prevent or counter a crisis.
- permacrisisA permanent crisis, one that continually drags on.
- postcrisisafter a crisis
- crisislessWithout crises
- metacrisisA series of interconnected crises occurring at the same time.
- multicrisisInvolving more than one crisis.
- precrisisOccurring before a period of crisis.
- ecocrisisEcological crisis.