meltdown
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definition
noun
the 1987 stock market meltdown
a disastrous event, especially a rapid fall in share prices.
I was 21 years old and it was three days after the partial meltdown of the reactor core.
an accident in a nuclear reactor in which the fuel overheats and melts the reactor core or shielding.
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the global financial system suffered a major 'meltdown'
I was 21 years old and it was three days after the partial 'meltdown' of the reactor core.
We asked them to offer practical lessons that they learned from the 'meltdown' .
the 1987 stock market 'meltdown'
The last thing a small business needs is a computer 'meltdown' just when it's time to run off the monthly accounts.
the story will revolve around her 'meltdown' following the accident
Fearing a 'meltdown' , the reactor officer shuts down the submarine's main source of power.
But he was saved from a total electoral 'meltdown' by only a handful of votes.
The patient also learns how to cope with unavoidable stress without having a 'meltdown' .
I can't walk into a nuclear power plant and start fiddling with knobs and dials, without causing a nuclear 'meltdown' .
That's why Yu's comments triggered such angst among those who see the makings of a dollar 'meltdown' .
They show you presentations of how top military bases were hacked and nuclear installations almost brought to 'meltdown' .
All three sell products to a wide range of markets, which helps protect them from a 'meltdown' in any one sector.
In May 1967 radioactivity was released into the environment when fuel caught fire in a reactor and suffered a partial 'meltdown' .
Some nuclear critics had asserted that a core 'meltdown' would inevitably breach containment.
First there was the Nasdaq 'meltdown' and the devastation of the dotcoms and the idea of the casual workplace.
Lipsio said he took little comfort in knowing that the 'meltdown' at the Palm Beach elections office happened during a trial to help spot such problems.
Somewhere along the way, a pipe bursts in the reactor core and 'meltdown' begins.
Even as a result of the only major 'meltdown' , at Three Mile Island in the United States a quarter of a century ago, no lives were lost.
It's been a long time since I've had a major 'meltdown' , and this time it was just about a puppy.
Will any of the business models that emerged over the past five years survive the 'meltdown' on Wall Street?
Only the most brilliant of chief executives can move the share price and even here the evidence in the face of the dotcom 'meltdown' is scant.
they wondered what could have triggered her 'meltdown'
A year ago one of the company's nuclear plants came dangerously close to a core 'meltdown' .
Like a 'meltdown' in a nuclear power plant, the conflagration now threatens to take the whole examination system down with it.
I'd be the last to whinge about tight deadlines, technology 'meltdowns' , the stress, the strain, the always urgent need to come up with an alternative expression for ‘and the wall did its job.’
Go and try out the Nuclear Power Plant Simulator and see how many 'meltdowns' you cause before you manage to survive an entire shift.
The public has long been suspicious of big business, but the recent financial 'meltdowns' have created even more disdain and distrust.
On the ice, the emphasis no longer is on the 'meltdowns' he used to suffer when the pressure was the greatest, when opponents tried to get under his skin.
While no one expects hedge-fund values to be listed in the daily newspapers, everyone would be relieved if fewer 'meltdowns' appeared in the headlines.
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