implosion

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Moreover, the arguments against globalisation have been somewhat strengthened by the current global financial implosion which is caused by the inherent weaknesses in the global financial makeup.

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  1. noun A violent collapse inward, as of a highly evacuated glass vessel.
  2. noun Violent compression.
  3. noun The inward collapse of a building that is being demolished in a controlled fashion by the weakening and breaking of structural members by explosives.
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  • A civilizational implosion was a whole different volley of nukes. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • We can return to a full-screen view of the implosion area now Hilda Kremer braced herself. —  AnalogSFF,September2007
  • Cold wind and flying snow swept around them in a blinding implosion, as if the air in the room had been sucked out and the storm pulled back in in its place. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • New Year's resolution for VCs: Survival After the dot-com implosion, there was much talk about the death of the venture capital (VC) industry. —  BloggingStocks
  • "In the current implosion, these companies are seeing orders evaporate from their large customers and since they don't have much of a cushion to fall back on during lean times, they are cutting costs anyway they can, meaning layoffs, firing, early retirement, wage and bonus cuts, work sharing and wage cuts," Kingston says. —  IPS Inter Press Service
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  1. in-2 + (ex)plosion.

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  1. from in- + -plosion, after explosion, q. v. Cf. Middle Latin implodere, put on with clapping, inflict.
 

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