What is the meaning of state of affairs?

noun

  • The general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time."the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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