complete disaster
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcompleteanddisaster
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complete
adjective
uk/kəmˈpliːt/us/kəmˈpliːt/
very great or to the largest ...
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disaster
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈzɑː.stər/us/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/
(an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or ...
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(Definition ofcompleteanddisasterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Result: the date is acompletedisaster.
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The privatisation - as opposed to liberalisation - there was acompletedisaster.
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We have had several months ofcompletedisasterwith the bus services.
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Politically inspired interference in industry has always been, and will always be, acompletedisaster.
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To do so would be to courtcompletedisaster.
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If, with the referendum, we try to weld to our parliamentary system ideas based on an entirely different philosophy, we shall end incompletedisaster.
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They have accepted that the energy levy as originally designed was acompletedisasterfor both the environment and industry.
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If we go on for another fortnight or three weeks with that kind of policy, we shall have acompletedisasteron our hands.
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However, it would not be acompletedisasterif, at the end of the day.
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He is not pledged to take from industry what might be the only safeguard againstcompletedisaster.
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Eleven years later we were at war, and ill prepared: only a near miracle saved us fromcompletedisasterin 1940.
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That is acompletedisasteras regards the government of this country making any sense.
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We have adopted that policy since 1931, and it has led tocompletedisaster.
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In conclusion, failure to achieve an agreement will naturally be disappointing but not acompletedisaster.
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That state of things will come, but to push it without any regard to timing would meet only withcompletedisaster.
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On the retail side, another spending boom would be acompletedisaster.
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There is no choice between disarmament andcompletedisaster.
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The poll tax is clearly acompletedisasterand should be abolished at the earliest possible moment.
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In the hill districts farmers are faced with what may result incompletedisaster.
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No one has ever argued a convincing military case for cruise, and cruise has been acompletedisasterpolitically.
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