Noun

(en noun)

The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.

A promise or pledge; a guarantee.

That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.

The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business.

Noun

(en noun)

That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.

* Washington Irving

The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.

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An event; a fact; a particular incident.

* Addison

The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history.

* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 20:

Then another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on my memory, though I was but a small child.

Circumlocution; detail.

* Shakespeare

So without more circumstance at all / I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.

Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

* Addison

When men are easy in their circumstances , they are naturally enemies to innovations.