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{
"term": "breakdown",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "an occasion when a vehicle or machine stops working",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a breakdown on the motorway"
},
{
"text": "a breakdown recovery service"
},
{
"text": "Most breakdown services give priority to women travelling alone."
},
{
"text": "The national breakdown organizations are on hand to help motorists 24 hours a day."
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by car or lorry", "Engineering"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["mechanical"],
"breakdown + verb": ["occur"],
"breakdown + noun": ["service", "truck", "vehicle"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a failure of a relationship, discussion or system",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The only ground for divorce is the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage."
},
{
"text": "marriage breakdown"
},
{
"text": "There has obviously been a breakdown in communications between the two sides."
},
{
"text": "The breakdown of the negotiations was not unexpected."
},
{
"text": "the complete breakdown of law and order"
},
{
"text": "A growing proportion of children are affected by family breakdown."
},
{
"text": "Marital breakdown can be followed by debt problems."
},
{
"text": "Both sides blame each other for the breakdown in negotiations."
}
],
"topics": ["Difficulty and failure"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["serious", "complete", "irretrievable"],
"verb + breakdown": ["cause", "lead to", "prevent"],
"preposition": ["breakdown in", "breakdown of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "detailed information that you get by studying a set of figures",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "First, let's look at a breakdown of the costs."
},
{
"text": "Please provide us with a breakdown of expenditure by department."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["detailed", "full", "cost"],
"verb + breakdown": [
"prepare",
"give somebody",
"provide (somebody with)"
],
"preposition": ["breakdown by", "breakdown of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the process of a substance breaking into the parts of which it is made",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the breakdown of proteins in the digestive system"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a period of serious mental illness in which somebody is unable to deal with normal life",
"labels": "(old-fashioned)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It all became too much and he had some sort of breakdown."
}
],
"topics": ["Mental health"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["emotional", "mental", "nervous"],
"verb + breakdown": ["have", "suffer"],
"phrases": [
"the brink of a nervous breakdown",
"the edge of a nervous breakdown",
"the verge of a nervous breakdown"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbreɪkdaʊn/",
"audio": "br/breakdown/breakdown__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbreɪkdaʊn/",
"audio": "br/breakdown/breakdown__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}