financial mess
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffinancialandmess
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financial
adjective
uk/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/us/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/
relating to money or how money ...
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mess
noun
uk/mes/us/mes/
Mess or a mess is something or someone that looks dirty ...
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(Definition offinancialandmessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffinancial mess
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Now we are in afinancialmess.
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Some universities have got themselves into a terriblefinancialmess.
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The country can not afford to have anotherfinancialmess.
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They will then be in an awfulfinancialmess.
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We are in afinancialmessbecause it is costing too much to govern ourselves.
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We could see developing countries suffer considerably for afinancialmessthey did not create.
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At the same time it takes the opportunity to sweep thefinancialmessunder the carpet.
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We cannot adopt the best method because we have made such a disastrousfinancialmess.
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I do not know why we are face to face with all thisfinancialmess.
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They have dug their own hole so far as thisfinancialmessis concerned.
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The state was in afinancialmessduring his reign.
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But until we came into office we were entirely ignorant of the terriblefinancialmessin which the country was.
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As soon as we have cleared up thefinancialmess, we may be able to do that.
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The consequences of the appallingfinancialmessinevitably lead to much greater problems and a serious deterioration in services.
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Our first priority, having sorted out thefinancialmessfor 1997–98, was to assess the position for 1998–99.
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That way lies a return to thefinancialmesswhich we are endeavouring to clear up this afternoon.
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There is deep anxiety about thefinancialmessthat has arisen because of the open-ended income support of private care.
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How can a business that has got itself into afinancialmessmake any money if the machinery that would achieve that is sold off?
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The real issue is thefinancialmessin which we find ourselves as a consequence of 14 years of economic failure and incompetence.
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After a few more years in afinancialmess, it closed down altogether in 1995.
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