When something is a major problem or disaster, it is called a .

a. spectacle
b. receptacle
c. debacte
d. oracle

The correct answer is: "debacle"

Debacle is a term used to denominate a big failure, a major problem or disaster, specially when some strategy has been previously planned or designed and it did not work out as it was forecasted. For example, in the finance industry, the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2007 was a debacle and one of the factors that triggered the Great Recession.  

c

explanation:

c

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