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There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
Rahm Emanuel

Meaning of "meltdown" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MELTDOWN

meltdown  [ˈmɛltˌdaʊn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MELTDOWN

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Meltdown is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MELTDOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Meltdown

Meltdown may refer to: ▪ Melting ▪ Nuclear meltdown ▪ The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 ▪ Meltdown, a 2009 book on the 2008 financial crisis by economist Thomas Woods ▪ Mutational meltdown in population genetics ▪ A tantrum ▪ Meltdown, a two-part comic book mini-series ▪ Tabitha Smith, a Marvel Comics character who was a member of the New Mutants and X-Force under the names Boom Boom, Boomer and Meltdown...

Definition of meltdown in the English dictionary

The first definition of meltdown in the dictionary is the melting of the fuel rods as a result of a defect in the cooling system, with the possible escape of radiation into the environment. Other definition of meltdown is a sudden disastrous failure with potential for widespread harm, as a stock-exchange crash. Meltdown is also the process or state of irreversible breakdown or decline.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MELTDOWN


blowdown
ˈbləʊˌdaʊn
breakdown
ˈbreɪkˌdaʊn
cooldown
ˈkuːlˌdaʊn
countdown
ˈkaʊntˌdaʊn
cutdown
ˈkʌtˌdaʊn
drawdown
ˈdrɔːˌdaʊn
godown
ˈɡəʊˌdaʊn
hoedown
ˈhəʊˌdaʊn
markdown
ˈmɑːkˌdaʊn
pastedown
ˈpeɪstˌdaʊn
pull-down
ˈpʊlˌdaʊn
shootdown
ˈʃuːtˌdaʊn
showdown
ˈʃəʊˌdaʊn
shutdown
ˈʃʌtˌdaʊn
slowdown
ˈsləʊˌdaʊn
smackdown
ˈsmækˌdaʊn
step-down
ˈstɛpˌdaʊn
sundown
ˈsʌnˌdaʊn
teardown
ˈtɛərˌdaʊn
touchdown
ˈtʌtʃˌdaʊn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MELTDOWN

melphalan
Melpomene
Melrose Abbey
melt
meltability
meltable
meltage
meltemi
melter
melting
melting point
melting pot
meltingly
meltingness
meltith
melton
melton cloth
Melton Mowbray
meltwater
melty

WORDS THAT END LIKE MELTDOWN

back down
break down
bring the house down
down
get down
go down
hold down
letdown
low-down
ride down
sit down
sit-down
takedown
turn down
up and down
up-and-down
upside down
upside-down
when the chips are down
wind down

Synonyms and antonyms of meltdown in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «meltdown» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MELTDOWN

Find out the translation of meltdown to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of meltdown from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «meltdown» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 堆芯熔毁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fusión
570 millions of speakers

English

meltdown
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मंदी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الانهيار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кризис
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fusão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তরলিকরন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fusion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melecehkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kernschmelze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

炉心溶融
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

> 용융
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Meltdown
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khủng hoảng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கரைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मंदीच्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

erime
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

melt down
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Odwilż
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

криза
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

meltdown
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατάρρευση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ineenstorting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

härdsmälta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

meltdown
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of meltdown

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MELTDOWN»

The term «meltdown» is very widely used and occupies the 22.632 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MELTDOWN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about meltdown

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10 QUOTES WITH «MELTDOWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word meltdown.
1
Max Brooks
Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.
2
Robert Cailliau
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.
3
Maria Cantwell
Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits.
4
Rahm Emanuel
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
5
Temple Grandin
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.
6
Ben Horowitz
The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'
7
Wladimir Klitschko
Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation everywhere. Water quality is affected. We all eat the same fish. We use products from all over the world - if something is contaminated, it will cause harm.
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Michelle Obama
Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.
9
Tristram Stuart
It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.
10
Sarah Waters
Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELTDOWN»

Discover the use of meltdown in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to meltdown and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market ...
As the new Obama administration inevitably calls for more regulations, Woods argues that the only way to rebuild our economy is by returning to the fundamentals of capitalism and letting the free market work
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., 2009
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Meltdown: a free-market look at why the stock market ...
Discusses the economic crisis, claiming that government regulation and manipulation caused the financial downturn in real estate and that further regulation and government bailouts will make the situation worse.
Thomas E. Woods, 2009
3
Meltdown
For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll.
Ben Elton, 2009
4
Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Meltdown provides a wealth of new material about a previously opaque series of events that eventually led the Bush administration to abandon confrontation and pursue negotiations, and explains how the diplomatic process collapsed and ...
Mike Chinoy, 2010
5
Meltdown
Filled with all the action, excitement and SAS special operations techniques that have kept this series on the UK bestseller lists, Meltdown completes the Watts saga in grand fashion.
Andy McNab, Robert Rigby, 2008
6
Meltdown!: The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy Future
Learn more about this massive catastrophe as Dr. Fred Bortz examines both the human tragedy and the scientific implications of the nuclear meltdown.
Alfred B. Bortz, 2012
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Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by ...
An eminently readable and often humorous critique, this volume documents hundreds of exaggerations from scientists, politicians and the media, and ties them together with the common thread of rational self-interest.
Patrick J. Michaels, 2005
8
Meltdown
Samuel Spendlove, one of the brightest young academics at Oxford, has given it all up to work undercover for William Barton, owner of a massive media empire.
Martin Baker, 2008
9
Meltdown
A controversial oceanographer investigates irradiated plankton, fish, and whales to uncover evidence that oceanic nuclear waste is threatening to destroy the fragile Arctic ecosystem.
James Powlik, 2002
10
Hockey Meltdown
Although Dylan's wrist is healing from the pre-season injury, can he be part of the team if he is stuck on the bench?
Jake Maddox, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MELTDOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term meltdown is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Gawker meltdown and the Vox-ification of the news media
In the past year, there have been two high-profile resignations in the media world that were conducted in protest: the mass departure of the bulk ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Market meltdown threatens China's transfer spending - Washington …
Market meltdown threatens China's transfer spending. By JOHN DUERDEN - Associated Press - Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Just when the spending power of ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
3
Ashley Madison customer service in meltdown as site battles hack …
Noel Biderman, owner of dating site Ashley Madison which is in disarray following the alleged theft of user data. Photograph: Daniel ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Labour in 'absolute meltdown' over welfare cuts rebellion as Andy …
Labour in 'absolute meltdown' over welfare cuts rebellion as Andy Burnham admits it is a 'mess'. Labour in disarray after 48 MPs rebel against ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Raheem Sterling: Nets on debut ... cue Twitter meltdown - CNN.com
(CNN) Raheem Sterling's ability to remain in the spotlight shows no signs of stopping. The $76 million star, who moved from Liverpool to ... «CNN, Jul 15»
6
Chris Brown Meltdown On Instagram Post Robbery "The Devil …
Chris Brown appears to be having a meltdown and he is venting via Instagram with the support of his 12 million fans. The “Ayo” singer took to ... «Urban Islandz, Jul 15»
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Democrats are in a Meltdown over FL Lt. Gov. Carlos López-Cantera …
Last Wednesday, Florida's Lieutenant Governor Carlos López-Cantera joined the race to replace Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in the United States ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
8
South32 scarred by price meltdown | The Australian
Mining company South32 is not yet two months old but it is already showing battle scars from the forced shakedown in the resources industry ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
9
Phil Rudd Meltdown Caught On Camera - Contactmusic.com
Phil Rudd Has Been Caught On Camera Suffering A Major Meltdown Following His Court Appearance In New Zealand On Monday (20jul15), ... «Contactmusic.com, Jul 15»
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Nonhle Thema on her Twitter meltdown: I was suicidal | eNCA
JOHANNESBURG - Back in 2011, she was constantly on our radar after her Twitter meltdown. Soon Nonhle became synonymous with Sit ... «eNCA, Jul 15»

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