At a point when a choice must be made; at a point of change.After earning my degree, I'm at a crossroads. I need to figure out which direction my life should take.As a company, we're at a crossroads. We can continue business as usual, or we can take a risk and try to grow.
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To be at a point when a choice must be made; to be at a point of change.After earning my degree, I'm at a crossroads. I need to figure out which direction my life should take.As a company, we're at a crossroads. We can continue business as usual, or we can take a risk and try to grow.
See also: crossroad
A location that serves to connect many different parts of the world together, as in culture or commerce.Situated between so many global superpowers, the little country is really at the crossroads of the world.The mass immigration of people from so many different backgrounds has transformed the landlocked state into something of a crossroads of the world.
See also: crossroad, of, world
Nefarious activities.He got arrested for being involved in dirty work at the crossroads.
See also: crossroad, dirty, work
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at the crossroads
Also, at a crossroads. At a point of decision or a critical juncture, as in Because of the proposed merger, the company is standing at the crossroads. This phrase, based on the importance accorded to the intersection of two roads since ancient times, has also been used figuratively just about as long. In the 1500s Erasmus quoted from the Greek Theognis's Elegies (c. 600 b.c.): "I stand at the crossroads."
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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