collapse Значение & определение

Значение на collapse на български

• 0 to fall down suddenly because of pressure or having no strength or support:

  • Thousands of buildings collapsed in the earthquake.

  • The chair collapsed under her weight.

  • figurative He thought his whole world had collapsed when his wife died.

  • He collapsed and died of a heart attack.

  • All chairs collapse for easy storage.

• 1 (of people and business) to suddenly be unable to continue or work correctly:

  • Lots of people lost their jobs when the property market collapsed.

  • Talks between management and unions have collapsed.

  • Share prices collapsed (= became lower suddenly) after news of poor trading.

• 2 the sudden failure of a system, organization, business, etc.:

  • I don't know what caused the collapse of her marriage.

  • A poor economy has caused the collapse of thousands of small businesses.

  • Negotiations between the two countries are on the brink/verge of collapse (= very soon going to fail).

  • He suffered a mental/nervous collapse after ten years' teaching.

• 3 the sudden falling movement of a person or structure that has become too weak to stand:

  • He was taken to hospital after his collapse on the pitch.

  • the collapse of a building during the earthquake

• 4 to fall down suddenly, or to cause to fall down:

  • [ I ] A piece of the wall collapsed on top of him.

• 5 to be unable to continue or to stay in operation; fail:

  • Talks between management and unions collapsed today.

• 6 an inability to continue or to stay in operation:

  • [ U ] the collapse of the Soviet empire

  • [ U ] Toward the end of the race he was near collapse.

• 7 to suddenly fail or become unable to continue:

  • the system/economy/government, etc. collapses Without computers the whole economic system would collapse.

  • a company/bank/industry, etc. collapses The bank collapsed after an alleged massive fraud.

  • talks/negotiations collapse

• 8 to suddenly fall to a much lower level:

  • prices/shares collapse Share prices collapsed after news of poor trading.

  • Construction jobs were lost as the property market collapsed.

• 9 the sudden failure of a system, organization, business, etc.:

  • A poor economy has caused the collapse of thousands of small businesses.

  • on the brink/verge of collapse Negotiations between the two companies are on the brink of collapse

• 10 a sudden fall to a much lower level:

  • the collapse of the American real estate market

  • a price/market collapse Did options accelerate the oil price collapse?