English-French translations for crisis

• crise
  L’Europe est en crise, et cette crise est grave. Europe is in crisis, and this crisis is serious.
  La crise de l'acier est avant tout politique. The steel crisis is mainly political.
  Cette crise est une crise de la culture politique. This crisis is a crisis of political culture.

Definition of crisis

• A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point
• A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die
• A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved

Related words

• crisis-ridden
• postcrisis
• anticrisis
• epicrisis
• crisis management
• crisis center
• crisis summit
• crisis meeting
• crisis centre