failure
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
failure/ˈfeɪljə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 lack of success.
■ an unsuccessful person or thing.
- 2 the omission of expected or required action: their failure to comply with the rules.
- 3 the action of ceasing to function or the state of not functioning.
■ a sudden cessation of power.
■ the collapse of a business.
'failure' also found in these Oxford entries:
aberration
- admit
- against
- anuria
- aplasia
- aplastic anaemia
- apology
- beriberi
- blackout
- breakdown
- bungle
- CCJ
- chance
- chromatic aberration
- cissing
- clinker
- coeliac disease
- collapse
- contributory negligence
- critical
- crucial
- damn
- day
- debacle
- decompensation
- default
- defeatist
- delinquency
- demise
- demurrage
- dereliction
- diabetes mellitus
- dinosaur
- disaster
- do
- dog
- doom
- fallacy
- fatal
- fiasco
- fizzer
- flameout
- flop
- foredoom
- fortune
- hamartia
- hantavirus
- Hashimoto's disease
- heart failure
