Usually means: Exhaustion from excessive prolonged stress.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. burnout: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. burnout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burnout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. burnout: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Burnout, burnout: Wordnik
  6. burnout: Wiktionary
  7. burnout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. burnout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. burnout: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. burnout: Dictionary.com
  11. burnout: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Burnout (Anarbor album), Burnout (Ox album), Burnout (clothing), Burnout (film), Burnout (game), Burnout (psychology), Burnout (series), Burnout (song), Burnout (vehicle), Burnout (video game), Burnout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. burnout: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Burnout: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Burnout: Investopedia
  5. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  6. Burnout: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burnout: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. burnout: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. burnout: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Burnout: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
noun:  A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
noun:  (US, slang) Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
noun:  (aerospace) The shutoff of a rocket motor following the exhaustion of its fuel, or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
noun:  The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
noun:  (automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.

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