debacle

debacle

1. katastrofi, fiasko (yleensä kuv.)

2. (sota yms.) luhistuminen, (rintaman murtuminen ja kaoottinen) perääntyminen; hötäkkä, äkkilähtö

3. jäidenlähtö; hyöky, äkkitulva

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Tax debacle could cost you £100 each month (Independent, 6.9.2010)

Synonyymisanakirja

debacle

romahtaminen, sortuminen, romahdus, mullistus, fiasko, tappio, häviö, selkäsauna, löylytys, rökitys, murskatappio, päihitys, rökäletappio, tulva, vedenpaisumus, jäidenlähdön aiheuttama tulva.

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Englannin sanakirja

debacle (englanti > suomi)

1. o, epäonnistuminen

2. laukeaminen

debacle englanniksi

1. An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.

2. 1952, w:Maimonides Maimonides, translated by Boaz Cohen, w:Epistle to Yemen|Epistle to Yemen s:Epistle to Yemen/XV|page 5,

The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.

3. 1996, Richard L. Canby, "SOF: An Alternative Perspective on Doctrine", in Schultz et al (eds), Roles And Missions of SOF In The Aftermath Of The Cold War, http://books.google.ca/books?id=4cL366lEXXYC&pg=PA188&vq=debacle&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1&sig=ACfU3U2ploE86HBGFygXYHid2sTmm_-Fhg p. 188,

The result is a military approach which maximizes political tensions with Russia (..) and lays the ground for a military debacle.

4. 2002, Jacqueline West, South America, Central America and the Carribean 2002, Routledge, ISBN 1-857431-21-9, page 68,

The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.

5. 2007, BP pipeline failure: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, "Statement by Peter Van Tuyn", http://books.google.ca/books?id=PE2_-3X4G9sC&pg=PA46&vq=debacle&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1&sig=ACfU3U04zvnb6kZ0563gBQJXa9YTnOSgwA p. 46,

The BP Prudhoe Bay debacle the w:Prudhoe Bay oil spill|Prudhoe Bay oil spill thus provides but the latest in a long line of reasons why leasing this region of the NPR-A is a bad idea.

6. puhekieltä A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.

7. 1836, w:Henry De La Beche|Henry De La Beche, How to Observe: Geology, http://books.google.ca/books?id=3xQ5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA69&dq=debacle p. 69

(..) so that in extreme cases the latter may even be dammed up for a time, and a debacle be the consequence, when the main river overcomes the resistance opposed to it, (..)

8. 1837, John Lee Comstock, Outlines of Geology, http://books.google.ca/books?id=URoXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA51&vq=debacle p. 51

For several months after the debacle just described, the river Dranse, having no settled channel, shifted its position continually (..)

9. 1872, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution'', http://books.google.ca/books?id=_Y8KAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA425&vq=debacle p. 425,

When this débâcle commences (..), the masses of ice, drifting with the current and unable to pass, are hurled upon those already soldered together; thus an enormous barrier is formed (..)

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