circuit breaker English

Meaning circuit breaker meaning

What does circuit breaker mean?

circuit breaker

— noun a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded

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circuit breaker English » English

breaker

switch

shutter

shock absorber

rheotome

line breaker

interrupter

fuse

disconnector

cutout

cut-out switch

cut-out

current breaker

buzzer

CB

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News and current affairs

Since early 2009, the Fund has had significantly greater resources to lend to countries in trouble, to cushion the blow of crisis, and to offer a form of international circuit-breaker when it looks like the lights might otherwise go out.

The US reaction is key: Rather than punishing the PA, and maybe the UN as well, it should use the resolution to propose the kind of diplomatic circuit-breaker for which the world has long been hoping.