train crash
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftrainandcrash
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train
noun
uk/treɪn/us/treɪn/
a railway engine connected to carriages for carrying people or to wheeled containers for ...
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crash
adjective[before noun]
uk/kræʃ/us/kræʃ/
quick and involving a lot ...
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(Definition oftrainandcrashfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In the aftermath of atraincrashpeople often feel ashamed to be identified with a country where this sort of thing can happen.
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It has to be a very serious car crash to rate the same status as atraincrash.
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We have also suffered the disasters of atraincrashand a blizzard, during a search in which two shepherds lost their lives.
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Sometimes it is going to be confronted with very big news—a break-in in its own area, a plane crash, atraincrash, a riot.
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I talked to a group of ambulance drivers who had spent two hours trying to help people get out from under atraincrash.
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In the five years before that, no one died or suffered a major injury in atraincrash.
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One observer referred some months ago to this unfolding crisis as like watching atraincrashin slow motion.
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I should like to add my expression of sympathy with those who have suffered as a result of thistraincrash.
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We must cope with every kind of emergency, at home—for example, atraincrash—and abroad.
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What is to happen in future if there is a similar outrage or a badtraincrash?
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I give as an illustration a plane crash when the mail bags are destroyed, or atraincrashwhen the mails are affected.
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A preventable air crash ortraincrashcausing a fraction of those casualties would lie for ever on the conscience of those who failed to prevent it.
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What happens if there is a largetraincrashin one region and 10 people break their necks and have to stay in hospital for a year?
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How can atraincrashbe planned?
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When the railways were in the public sector, after atraincrash, the action that has in recent months been taken against the rail infrastructure companies was not taken.
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A local legend tells of atraincrashin the area in the early twentieth century.
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