breakdown

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UK /ˈbɹeɪkdaʊn/ US /ˈbɹeɪkˌdaʊn/

noun 5

Collocations

(noun.) mechanical failure

ADJ

electrical, mechanical

BREAKDOWN + VERB

occur

BREAKDOWN + NOUN

organization, service

When the train stopped suddenly, passengers called the breakdown service for assistance.

crane, lorry, vehicle

(noun.) failure/end of sth

ADJ

serious

complete, irretrievable

After months of arguing, their relationship suffered a complete breakdown and they decided to separate.

communication, family, marital, marriage, relationship

VERB + BREAKDOWN

cause, lead to

PREP

~ in/of

The company's communication problems led to a breakdown in trust between management and employees.

(noun.) collapse of mental health

ADJ

emotional, mental, nervous, psychological

VERB + BREAKDOWN

have, suffer

(noun.) list of the details of sth

ADJ

detailed, full | cost

VERB + BREAKDOWN

prepare

The accountant prepared a financial breakdown showing where the company spent its budget last year.

give sb, provide (sb with)

PREP

~ by, ~ of

The report showed a detailed breakdown of sales by region over the past year.

Definitions

noun

A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.

Whenever he was behind the wheel, he would panic at the first sign of a breakdown.

He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services.

A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.

Something, such as a vehicle, that has experienced a mechanical failure.

We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.

Separation of a thing into components; decomposition, fragmentation; (countable) an instance of this.

Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.

The railways' monopoly had meant that accountancy and record-keeping had been limited to global accounts. In other words, there were only really headline numbers, with little useful breakdown by routes or traffic type.

Separation of a thing into components; decomposition, fragmentation; (countable) an instance of this.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to co

dislocation

noun — an analysis into mutually exclusive categories

partitioning

noun — (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal

noun — a mental or physical breakdown

crack-up

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Whenever he was behind the wheel, he would panic at the first sign of a breakdown.

Wiktionary

We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.

Wiktionary

She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Tatoeba · #2183

If Jane does not rest more, she may have a nervous breakdown.

Tatoeba · #53781

Kaneko was so stressed out at her new job that she had a nervous breakdown.

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