Burnout

  • 11Burnout — A period of slowing mortgage prepayment within a mortgage backed security (MBS). This usually occurs after the mortgages start to mature. When some percentage of the underlying loans fail to prepay after an interest rate cycle, this is known as… …

    Investment dictionary

  • 12burnout — noun Date: 1940 1. the cessation of operation usually of a jet or rocket engine; also the point at which burnout occurs 2. a. exhaustion of physical or emotional strength or motivation usually as a result of prolonged stress or …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 13burnout — n. (colloq.) (AE) exhaustion to experience, suffer burnout * * * [ bɜːnaʊt] suffer burnout (colloq.) (AE) [ exhaustion ] to experience …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 14burnout — [tonaut] 1. n. a person who is ruined by drugs. □ The kid’s a burnout. What can you do? □ Two burnouts sat on the school steps and stared at their feet. 2. n. someone no longer effective on the job. □ As a teacher, Fred is a burnout …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 15burnout — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun ( s) Etymology: burn out 1. : a fire that consumes all the flammable contents (as of a building); broadly : a large and destructive fire 2. : a breakdown of an electrical circuit caused by fusion or combusti …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 16burnout — 1. In dentistry, the elimination, by heat, of an invested pattern from a set investment in order to prepare the mold to receive casting metal. 2. A psychological state of physical and …

    Medical dictionary

  • 17Burnout — Abgeschlagenheit (schweiz.); Lassitudo (fachsprachlich); Niedergeschlagenheit; Erschöpfung * * * Burn out auch: Burn|out 〈[bœ:naʊt] n. 15〉 1. Brennschluss bei Raketen …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 18burnout — burn|out [ˈbə:naut US ˈbə:rn ] n 1.) [U] the feeling of always being tired because you have been working too hard ▪ Many of the teachers are suffering from burnout. 2.) [U and C] the time when a ↑rocket or ↑jet has finished all of its ↑fuel and… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19burnout — noun (C, U) 1 the time when a rocket (1) or jet 1 (1) has finished all of its fuel and stops operating 2 a state in which you have ruined your health by working too hard: teachers suffering from burnout …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 20burnout — /ˈbɜnaʊt/ (say bernowt) noun 1. the point in time or in the trajectory of a missile or rocket when combustion of fuels in the rocket engine is terminated by other than programmed cut off. 2. Colloquial a nervous breakdown brought on by exhaustion …