Meltdown meaning
When a nuclear reactor overheats, this is an example of a meltdown.
When the currency of a country starts to lose value and the economy starts to fall apart, this is an example of a meltdown.
When the stock market tumbles 1,000 points in a day, this is an example of a meltdown.
A meltdown of the banking system.
Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding.
Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall.