Synonym: head, pass, strait. Similar words: strait, straitened, dire straits, straitlaced, strait of hormuz, trait, traitor, portrait. Meaning: [streɪt] 
n. 1. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs 2. a difficult juncture.
n. 1. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs 2. a difficult juncture. 
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1. The company is in dire straits.
2. The factory is in dire straits.
3. He tried to swim across the Straits of Gibraltar.
4. The firm is now in dire financial straits .
5. The business is in dire financial straits.
6. She found herself in desperate financial straits.
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7. Everyone agrees the sport is in dire straits.
8. The firm is in dire straits and may go bankrupt.
9. So many companies are in such dire/difficult straits that their prices have come right down.
10. Many hundreds of vessels pass through the straits each year.
11. The town is on the straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
12. Think of them as a punk Dire Straits.
13. It pull them in dire financial straits.
14. Voice over Others are in worse straits.
15. Bitter rhetoric flows across the straits.
16. Smugglers have been plying the straits for years.
17. Everton, to put it bluntly, are in dire straits.
18. The company is in dire financial straits.
19. The labour camp itself was supplied from the straits.
20. Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me.
21. Peggy realized what dire financial straits she was in when her husband died.
22. The team is in such dire straits they've even considered selling their three best players.
23. After the war the county's economy was in dire straits.
24. Now that father's lost his job, we're in dire straits.
25. The company'sclosure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
26. The captain was not willing to risk taking his ship through the straits in such bad weather.
27. The result is a society that was in dire straits because its cannibalism turned against itself, involving even small children.
28. We had to steer our ship through the swift currents of the Bering Straits.
29. In certain cases, the organization bears little blame for finding itself in such straits.
30. The ring is broken only at its southernmost point by the Straits of Lothern.
More similar words: strait, straitened, dire straits, straitlaced, strait of hormuz, trait, traitor, portrait, strain, strained, straight, restrain, constrain, straighten, constraint, straightaway, straight line, straighten up, unrestrained, constrainedly, straightforward, strain every nerve, keep a straight face, wraith, train, trail, trainee, trailer, trainer, by train.