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basket case
noun
plural basket cases
1
a
informal : a person who is functionally incapacitated from extreme nervousness, emotional distress, mental or physical overwork, etc.
b
informal : something (such as a business or government) that is dysfunctional, run-down, or close to failure
But the utility industry is a financial basket case. Once the bluest of blue chips, utility stocks and bonds have lost their luster. 
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Example Sentences
I was so worried about losing my job that I was a complete basket case. a business that was once very successful but is now a financial basket case
Recent Examples on the Web Communist China was a basket case under one-man rule. Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022 Sri Lanka is an international basket case whose foreign reserves — which once stood at over $6 billion under the Rajapaksas — have dwindled to almost nothing. New York Times, 29 May 2022 Naím was once, in a happier day, the finance minister of Venezuela, and Hugo Chávez, who took a troubled but essentially prosperous country with a long democratic tradition and turned it into an international basket case, comes in for close study. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 Credit Suisse has become a European banking basket case. Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022 The village was literally a basket case, bereft of water, food and all hope. Steve West, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2022 Venezuela, another socialist basket case, slips to the second-most-miserable country in the world after six years in the pole position. Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022 Today, a mere million dollars barely buys a Miura basket case. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2022 After all, remember, even Moses started out as a basket case, as author J.J. Jasper reminds us. Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Dec. 2021 See More
Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022 Sri Lanka is an international basket case whose foreign reserves — which once stood at over $6 billion under the Rajapaksas — have dwindled to almost nothing. New York Times, 29 May 2022 Naím was once, in a happier day, the finance minister of Venezuela, and Hugo Chávez, who took a troubled but essentially prosperous country with a long democratic tradition and turned it into an international basket case, comes in for close study. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 Credit Suisse has become a European banking basket case. Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022 The village was literally a basket case, bereft of water, food and all hope. Steve West, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2022 Venezuela, another socialist basket case, slips to the second-most-miserable country in the world after six years in the pole position. Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022 Today, a mere million dollars barely buys a Miura basket case. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2022 After all, remember, even Moses started out as a basket case, as author J.J. Jasper reminds us. Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1919, in the meaning defined at sense 2
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