The noun situation has 5 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (65) situation, state of affairs -- (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)
2. (19) situation, position -- (a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation")
3. situation -- (a complex or critical or unusual difficulty; "the dangerous situation developed suddenly"; "that's quite a situation"; "no human situation is simple")
4. site, situation -- (physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides")
5. position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation -- (a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury")