OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10805

breakdown

/ˈbɹeɪkdaʊn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desglose • disección
Separation of a thing into components; decomposition, fragmentation; (countable) an instance of this.
Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
The railways' monopoly had meant that accountancy and record-keeping had been limited to global accounts. In other words, there were only really headline numbers, with little usefu…