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UK
/flˈæʃpɔɪnt/
]
[ US /ˈfɫæʃˌpɔɪnt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫæʃˌpɔɪnt/ ]
NOUN
-
a place of political unrest and potential violence
the United States cannot police all of the world's hot spots - the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air
- point at which something is ready to blow up
How To Use flashpoint In A Sentence
- Brum boss Alex McLeish also labelled Ngog a "conman" over the 71st-minute flashpoint that spared the blushes of under-fire Rafa Benitez's side. Undefined
- With food a more valuable commodity here than gold, the port is a flashpoint between marauding gangs of looters and bandits.
- Worse still for the proud black stars of Ghana, it appears as if their former son-in-law has also added Zimbabwe as one of the bloody flashpoints of Africa today!
- The cable wars in the city have reached a new flashpoint.
- The fixture list had been arranged to keep matches with potential flashpoints away from the ground until December, but the cup draw has changed all that. Times, Sunday Times
- This is one of the reasons the case has become such a flashpoint. Times, Sunday Times
- Perhaps another tragedy but created not in the flashpoint of the boxing ring but over a phenomenal career was that of Muhammad Ali.
- Child custody and visitation rights are becoming flashpoints in our society: Men are desperate to be a part of their children's lives.
- The ANC congratulated "those members of the police force who displayed sensitivity and acted with restraint at the flashpoints that occurred in cities such as Port Elizabeth and Durban". ANC Daily News Briefing
- The answer, I believe, is often that these disagreements occur in cases that not only present difficult legal questions, but also are flashpoints for underlying conflicts involving basic values and beliefs.
