basket casenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbɑː.skɪt ˌkeɪs/us/ˈbæs.kɪt ˌkeɪs/basket case noun [ C ] (PERSON)
informal someone who is extremely nervous or anxious and is therefore unable to organize their life:
By the end of the course I was a complete basket case.
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Of unsound mind
- around the bend idiom
- bat
- batshit
- battle-scarred
- beside
- crackers
- disturbed
- fruitcake
- gaga
- loon
- lose
- mad
- maniac
- nutcase
- off your trolley idiom
- psychopath
- schizo
- screwy
- trolley
- unhinged
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basket case noun [ C ] (COUNTRY/COMPANY)
a country or company that is very unsuccessful financially:
20 years ago the country was an economic basket case.
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Success & failure in business
- administration
- axe
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- branch
- branch out
- collapse
- establish
- fold
- foreclose
- growing pains
- joint venture
- liquidator
- locate
- moribund
- official receiver
- organic growth
- receivership
- shut (sth) down
- spin
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