Collocations withstrait

These are words often used in combination withstrait.

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desperate straits
On the other hand, there are highly subsidised areas, the 'enclaves of poverty', zones of social-economic degradation where indigenous peoples may be in desperate straits.
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dire straits
To be sure, not everyone in the tory leadership felt that they were in such dire straits.
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economic straits
This child was born of a legitimate union, and was given up when the mother was left alone and in dire economic straits.
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financial straits
This left him in financial straits, prolonged because he lost his job and failed to find another for several years.
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narrow strait
There is an enormous change of water twice a day through a narrow strait.
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