The phrase "a total collapse of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a complete failure or breakdown of a system, organization, or situation.
Example: "The company faced a total collapse of its financial structure after the market crash."
Alternatives: "a complete breakdown of" or "an utter failure of".
It's a total collapse of the security forces".
It was a total collapse of news values, the corporation peddling tabloid chauvinist schlock.
That would mean open war and a total collapse of party unity".
The currency board was put in after a total collapse of confidence in the government.
"Darfur may easily enter a state of anarchy, a total collapse of law and order," he said.
The report expressed concern at what it described as a "total collapse of credibility in the banking sector".
See article.In this section Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon ReprintsThe UN warned that Yemen is nearing a "total collapse", as a coalition of ten countries led by Saudi Arabia continued a campaign of air strikes in support of the Yemeni government against Houthi rebels.
He says that the circumstances in which they found themselves were almost unprecedented in modern America: there was a total collapse in the leadership of the police force while officers were confronting anarchy and devastation on the streets.
In time these internal and external pressures produced a near total collapse of any meaningful central authority in Elam.
The next few years saw a near total collapse of Mexican cinema, with production falling from more than 100 features per year down to single figures.
With it, a threatened total collapse of the banking system was avoided, economies were—eventually able to stabilise and, with a few notable exceptions in southern Europe, unemployment rates remained well below those seen during the Great Depression.Its unconventional nature, however, means that quantitative easing is, in essence, an experimental policy.
