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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
2: a person's financial situation (good or bad); "he found himself in straitened circumstances"

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. pl. 1. Situation, condition, position, state of affairs. 2. Surroundings, environment, attendant conditions. 3. Pecuniary standing, moneyed condition.

Moby Thesaurus

affairs, alentours, ambience, ambit, assessed valuation, assets, assets and liabilities, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, compass, concerns, condition of things, conditions, context, current assets, dealings, deferred assets, doings, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, existing conditions, fixed assets, frozen assets, full particulars, funds, gestalt, goings-on, habitat, ins and outs, intangible assets, intangibles, life, liquid assets, march of events, material assets, matters, means, milieu, neighborhood, net assets, net worth, outposts, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, precincts, proceedings, purlieus, quick assets, relations, resources, run of things, set of conditions, situation, state of affairs, status quo, stock, stock-in-trade, suburbs, surroundings, tangible assets, tangibles, the times, the world, total environment, total situation, vicinage, vicinity, wealth, what happens, whole picture