Definition of "collapses" []

• Plural form of collapse. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collapse. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Without this belief, the word collapses, meaningless."
• "(Imagine the patient stumbles into the ER and collapses from a heart attack: should we amend the statute so that you spend, maybe, 20 minutes trying to verify ability to pay before trying to resuscitate the guy? absolutely not!)"
• "I'd hate to have to rewrite the Friedman and Schwartz book where the role Friedman and Schwartz assigned to monetary collapses is assigned instead to productivity shocks."