noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a breakdown in communication (= a failure )
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Differences in language and traditions can lead to a breakdown in communication.
a breakdown in negotiations (= an occasion when negotiations cannot continue because of a disagreement )
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There has been a breakdown in negotiations with the union.
a complete nervous breakdown
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He had a complete nervous after leaving university.
be heading for a nervous breakdown (= be likely to suffer one soon )
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She should slow down a bit - I think she's heading for a nervous breakdown.
be on the verge/edge of a nervous breakdown (= to be very close to having a nervous breakdown )
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These events left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
breakdown truck
have a nervous breakdown
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My mother had a nervous breakdown after my father's death.
on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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an event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown
suffer a nervous breakdown
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At university, Jan suffered a nervous breakdown and was treated for depression.
the breakdown/breakup of sb’s marriage (= the end of it )
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The breakup of her marriage had a devastating effect on her.
the breakdown/collapse of talks
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The collapse of the talks sent shock waves round the world.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complete
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An alternative source of nitrogen will be required to ensure a rapid buildup of bacteria and the complete breakdown of cellulose.
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A complete breakdown of budget talks could push rates back up, at least temporarily, analysts concede.
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Huge contributions from parents are saving school from a complete breakdown , according to an investigation by the Mail on Sunday.
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At sixty-four he had suffered a complete mental breakdown .
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So no one told him he was already heading for a complete nervous breakdown .
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At twenty, in Budapest, he suffered a complete nervous breakdown , which he conquered through a gruelling program of callisthenics.
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It was a complete breakdown of a friendship in a way.
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With a wife and two small daughters to support, poor Nelson almost yearns for a complete breakdown .
detailed
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More detailed cost breakdowns are discussed later in this chapter.
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Table 12.1 shows a more detailed breakdown of expenditure.
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The Diagnostic Key provides a detailed breakdown of the Grammar Test.
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The figure gives a detailed breakdown of patients included and excluded from the study.
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This section gives a detailed breakdown of what may be required in your daily work.
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It is therefore normal practice to provide a more detailed cost breakdown under key cost headings arising on contracts or development.
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The following detailed breakdown is designed to help those wanting to fund out more about awards available in a particular sector.
marital
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There is little doubt, then, that the effect of marital breakdown upon the children of the couple concerned is multi-causal.
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Witness the rates of marital breakdown in the Western world!
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Two factors are mainly responsible for movement from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors - unemployment and marital breakdown .
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The second main factor is marital breakdown .
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It is the financial life-line in times of marital crisis and breakdown .
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No, they suffer from an altogether different, better class of marital breakdown .
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However, it is on marital breakdown that the crucial implications of this situation are particularly illuminated.
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The tenure of a person's housing has been shown to be a consequence of marital breakdown in many cases.
mechanical
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Although there have been mechanical breakdowns , they have merely affected the vehicles carrying the material.
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But Woosnam has fewer mechanical breakdowns than Peter because his brain is better able to instruct his body what to do.
mental
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That seems a recipe for a mental breakdown .
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At sixty-four he had suffered a complete mental breakdown .
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Arthur Benson recovered from several years of mental breakdown about two years previously and was in the evening summer of his life.
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Hence the complete and utter mental breakdown of whoever contracts the disease.
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She believed Martin had ended the engagement, and eventually she had a serious mental breakdown .
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A big kiss Dedo Laure, his favourite aunt, was suffering from a severe mental breakdown .
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Everything about him screams mid-life crisis / impending mental breakdown .
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You are having some sort of mental breakdown .
nervous
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Logan, who had had two nervous breakdowns , said that he would take the pills himself.
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His solicitor said he was suffering from an acute nervous breakdown .
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He said she acted erratic, got the shakes one evening and almost had a nervous breakdown .
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Do not give yourself a nervous breakdown trying to prepare and cook three courses on the day perfectly and on time.
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They are almost three times as prone to nervous breakdowns .
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One needed to go on a crash diet, the other was in the middle of a nervous breakdown .
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Shortly after her marriage, she had a nervous breakdown and had to be institutionalized.
total
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Howard Hughes suffered a total breakdown .
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They did not see a total breakdown happening until at least the second half of the twenty-first century.
■ NOUN
communication
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There looked to be a communications breakdown in the Oxford defence.
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It is at this point that things often go wrong and communication breakdowns occur.
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However, games lead to communication breakdowns .
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Engineers should be aware of the potential for communication breakdowns , especially at internal or external interfaces.
family
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A future with just one screen for all functions would result in rapid family breakdown .
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The most direct pressures come from welfare incentives for family breakdown and tax penalties for male providers.
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These include illegitimacy, family breakdown and reconstitution, social class, unemployment, poverty, and ethnicity.
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Other academic analysts at Williamsburg denied any important connection between the use of welfare and the incidence of illegitimacy and family breakdown .
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Black poverty remains; family breakdown , drug addiction and violence have worsened.
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How could welfare have increased family breakdown during a period when the real value of the payments was decreasing?
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Such attitudes not only displace others from paid employment but also lead to family breakdown .
marriage
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The importance of the economic support provided by husbands is neatly illustrated by working class women's attitudes towards marriage breakdown .
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Boredom, isolation and loneliness can lead to alcoholism, marriage breakdowns and a failure to complete the assignment.
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Drinking affects personal relationships, causing marriage breakdown and harming the children in the family.
product
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If sulphur hexafluoride is subjected to electrical sparking in the presence of oxygen, it degrades, releasing toxic breakdown products .
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Mesobilirubinogen, urobilinogen, and urobilin represent intestinal breakdown products of bilirubin catabolism. 220.
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Liver damage is known to occur when the breakdown product of a chemical is highly toxic.
truck
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Theft from truck: A gear box was stolen from a breakdown truck in Anchorage Lane, Northallerton.
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The officers called a breakdown truck to pull him out.
■ VERB
cause
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The civil war has aggravated this situation, causing a breakdown in family life, such as it was.
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The pressure of taking on other peoples' problems can cause breakdowns .
follow
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The move follows the breakdown of the 999 system which, it is claimed, led to a number of deaths.
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A horse dies following an ugly breakdown in front of the grandstand on opening day at Santa Anita.
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In 1878 she gave up teaching for two years, following a breakdown in health.
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The following is breakdown of 1996 federal spending.
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Usually maintenance work is carried out during the course of repairs following a breakdown .
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The move is aimed at restoring public confidence following the breakdown of the computer emergency 999 call system.
give
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Do not give yourself a nervous breakdown trying to prepare and cook three courses on the day perfectly and on time.
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In Chapter 2 I gave a breakdown of the five minimum requirements of the graph search mechanism.
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He has given you a cost breakdown as follows: You have also ascertained that: 1.
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Table 3 gives the breakdown of the 23,900 hectares in the 6 upland areas.
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BThe report gave no breakdown of statistics by state or city.
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Others give a complete breakdown of specialist editors and correspondents.
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The figure gives a detailed breakdown of patients included and excluded from the study.
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This section gives a detailed breakdown of what may be required in your daily work.
lead
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Some fear that it will lead to a breakdown of the civic culture that Almond and Verba so admired in Britain.
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Blaming often leads to complete breakdown in family communications.
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Their appearance is connected with anharmonicity, which leads to a breakdown of the selection rules derived assuming simple harmonic motion.
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Some theorized that repeated rectal exposure to the semen of different partners might be leading to an immune breakdown .
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Even outside these types of confrontation, the very differences in language and traditions can lead to a breakdown in communication.
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Such attitudes not only displace others from paid employment but also lead to family breakdown .
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However, games lead to communication breakdowns .
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The biographer speculated that it may have been failure in his alchemical experiments that led to this breakdown .
prevent
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Such strategies prevent the breakdown of capitalism into class conflicts.
provide
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As for providing a breakdown on the individual expenses this year, the inaugural committee is keeping its counsel.
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The Diagnostic Key provides a detailed breakdown of the Grammar Test.
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Equally, the estimator may have insufficient time or resources to provide a breakdown of the estimate.
result
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The second category is the national stoppage resulting from the breakdown of negotiations and the exhaustion of the bargaining machinery.
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A future with just one screen for all functions would result in rapid family breakdown .
show
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Overlay a transparent sheet used in the preparation of multi-colour artwork showing the colour breakdown .
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These results are now being presented to show a breakdown between Personal and Commercial lines within the portfolio.
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The strain always showed in the bizarre breakdowns of individuals and the cultish excesses of certain groups.
suffer
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At sixty-four he had suffered a complete mental breakdown .
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This is how it was for Regina who from 1942, when she was eighteen, suffered numerous breakdowns .
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At twenty, in Budapest, he suffered a complete nervous breakdown , which he conquered through a gruelling program of callisthenics.
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Howard Hughes suffered a total breakdown .
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Most of the young people had suffered several foster placement breakdowns , and some had been in trouble with the law.
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The report identified how she was forced to quit her secretarial job and how she suffered a breakdown .
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Even the previous November there had been isolated rumours that he had suffered a nervous breakdown .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It seems like our copy machine has a breakdown every week.
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Many families experience marital breakdown .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A breakdown is possible only for large-circulation papers like the Sun and the Mirror.
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Being confined to the one living space meant an increase in hyperactivity and breakdown in family relationships.
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Child-care breakdowns set two-paycheck couples at war over who stays home with the kids.
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Howard Hughes suffered a total breakdown .
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The people who hired us said they all thought I was having a schizophrenic breakdown .
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Thus any breakdown in the cold chain could be quantified.
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Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge, more appropriately to their characters, would have had nervous breakdowns.