🇬🇧 Meltdown meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A meltdown is when something important fails in a big, dramatic way, especially when it has to do with money. For example, if a company makes terrible money choices and suddenly loses almost all its money, people might say the company had a financial meltdown. It doesn’t mean just a small mistake; it means everything goes wrong at once and the whole plan falls apart.

The toy kingdom’s royal bank went into meltdown when the queen doll bought 400 tiny plastic shoes.

The lemonade stand had a meltdown when my little brother changed the price from one dollar to one marble and a hug.

My financial plan had a meltdown the instant I saw the world’s largest cotton candy at the fair.

The kingdom’s royal budget went into meltdown when the king insisted on a golden toilet for his pet goat.

People often say “financial meltdown” to describe a huge money disaster, like when a whole country’s banking system fails.

At dawn she watched a market meltdown on three screens: a financial meltdown, prices crashing, the bank meltdown headline, her savings sinking. The café felt the meltdown in empty cups and a tipped jar of coins. The cashier whispered "meltdown" again as bills stacked. She closed the laptop, wiped tears, and put a sign: "Closed until calm."

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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