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breakdown  (breakdowns plural )
1  n-count The breakdown of  something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.  (=collapse) 
...the breakdown of talks between the US and EU officials.  
2  n-count If you have a breakdown, you become very depressed, so that you are unable to cope with your life. 
My personal life was terrible. My mother had died, and a couple of years later I had a breakdown...  
 →  nervous breakdown 
3  n-count If a car or a piece of machinery has a breakdown, it stops working. 
Her old car was unreliable, so the trip was plagued by breakdowns...  
4  n-count A breakdown of  something is a list of its separate parts.  (=analysis) 
The organisers were given a breakdown of the costs.