0 the point where a new or different situation is about to begin:
1 the edge of a cliff or other high area, or the point at which something good or bad will happen:
2 the point where a new, different, or dangerous situation is about to begin:
These countries are on the brink of a disastrous famine.
Negotiations between the two countries are on the brink of collapse.
What we are seeing now is a country teetering on the brink of civil war.
Not long ago the river otter was on the brink of extinction.
I wish well to any scheme that the board brinks out.
Brinks is a provider of security services to banks, retailers, governments, mints and jewelers.
His great speculation, so close to resulting in a spectacular financial as well as scientific success, was on the brink of failure.
