financial collapse

collocation in English

meaningsoffinancialandcollapse

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financial
adjective
uk
/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/us
/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/
relating to money or how money ...
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collapse
noun
uk
/kəˈlæps/us
/kəˈlæps/
the sudden failure of a system, organization, ...
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(Definition offinancialandcollapsefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Despite this, the real impact of state pension schemes was undermined by the system'sfinancialcollapse.
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This literature examines the relationship between metropolitanfinancialcollapseand a viceregal government plagued by rebellion and insurgency during the 1810s.
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The devastating reciprocal effect of the wars on royal finances, and offinancialcollapseon the armies, becomes all too clear.
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Although internationalfinancialcollapsewas averted, the price was high, and paid mainly by the poorer (and heavily indebted) nations, many of which experienced difficulties in servicing their debts.
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The negative effect may capture the dramatic increase in the ability of portfolio investments to move quickly among countries, which at times leads tofinancialcollapseand devastating socio-political outcomes.
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Full redesign tends to gain political momentum only in compelling circumstances, typically when the regulated industry, or the economy in which it operates, is in or nearfinancialcollapse.
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We began to give cash to asylum seekers, which brought the department to a practical andfinancialcollapse.
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One part contains the new financial arrangements for the purpose of enabling land purchase to be carried out withoutfinancialcollapse.
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We need to discover the way in which operations in one subsidiary have brought the whole group to a state offinancialcollapse.
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The managers and people who know the industry are the best people to refurbish and recreate the industry where there has beenfinancialcollapse.
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Then, according to the experts, we were on the verge of afinancialcollapse, and we were on the threshold of another great depression.
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We are compelled to conduct our affairs in a mariner that will prevent thefinancialcollapsethat threatened this country taking place.
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If it is justified as a rescue operation following afinancialcollapse, is it not also justified while there are some profits to be made?
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The island was in imminent danger offinancialcollapseand that poverty and distress were widespread, and unemployment was rife.
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And yet within 12 months we had thefinancialcollapseand the receiver being appointed.
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The overall picture of what actually happened discloses a lack of political will in the face of mounting evidence offinancialcollapse.
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And after two and a-half years in office the nation was in danger of imminentfinancialcollapse.
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There was a greatfinancialcollapse, and the imports and exports of all countries became very much less immediately.
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The second wave of crisis, which was caused by thefinancialcollapseof 1931, has been met.
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What would also upset local authority calculations would be the suddenfinancialcollapseof the largest employer in the area, throwing thousands onto the dole.
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