crash
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5.2
- noun
- /kræʃ/
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- With the Wall Street crash of 1929, many Americans were left poor and unemployed.
- stock market crash
- a market crash
- Wall Street crash
Now, how could there potentially be a market crash catalyst?
- Now, how could there potentially be a market crash catalyst?
- Why did we have this, this very brief crash in the stock markets?
- The housing market crash, the stock market crash, the coronavirus.
- Stock market crashes like this don't come around that often.
- Something that you should never do during a stock market crash is panic sell.
- March, we saw a crash in the market, but then April sprung back up.
- There was the oil, the oil crash, inflation, stagflation.
- It's probably the biggest crash in history is still coming.
- It's called what Andy Chapman calls the three times crash. Stocks, bonds and mutual funds crash,
Examples
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Dad lost everything in the market crash, like everybody else.
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Before its economic crash in 1981, Mexico ranked in the upper tier of developing countries.
Academic text (1991) -
I guess they were busy with that whole "market crash" thing then.
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So the best time to prepare for a crash is before the crash.
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When Dad lost everything in the crash...
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But the Crash of '29 hit his interests hard.
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You heard of that market crash in '29?
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Many lost fortunes in the crash.
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In the aftermath of the stock market crash, Romy sends a cable to her parents.
Fiction book (1997) -
The sudden economic crash left thousands without jobs and triggered a wave of bankruptcies.
Synonyms
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4.1
A sudden failure, for example of a person or a building
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2.5
A sudden drop in amount, value, or importance
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4.5
A complete failure of an event or plan
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5.8
A sudden total failure that causes serious damage to a system
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4.4
A failure in a system or relationship that stops it working properly
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4.9
A sudden steep fall in value or amount
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4.6
A sudden large drop in value, often of stocks or prices
A time when many people or companies lose a lot of money in markets
Antonyms
Compounds
- UK
4
2.3
A hard padded hat people wear when riding a bike or motorcycle to protect the head in a crash
A strong barrier at the side or middle of a road that stops cars from leaving the road
- Specialized
An accident when the small moving part that reads a hard drive touches the disk and destroys data
How Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crash is used for big business failures by comparing the sudden fall to a violent collision or break. So a market 'crash' means a fast, sharp drop in prices and activity.