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What (who) is failure - definition
failure
!["Failing is not a crime but lack of effort is" – sign on [[Leh]] to [[Nubra]] road](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Failure is not a crime. Sign on Leh-Nubra road.2010.jpg?width=200 "\"Failing is not a crime but lack of effort is\" – sign on [[Leh]] to [[Nubra]] road")
STATE OR EVENT OF NOT MEETING A DESIRED OR INTENDED OBJECTIVE
Fail; Commercial failures; Phail; Epic fail; FAIL; PHAIL; Epic Fail; EPIC FAIL; Unsuccess; Fail picture; Fail pictures; Fail (Internet meme); Failed; Epic failure; Fail (meme); Failboat; Failures; Commercial failure; Failing; Fail (internet meme); Major fail; Failiure
The inability of a system or system component to perform a
required function within specified limits. A failure may be
produced when a fault is encountered.
(1996-05-13)
Failure
STATE OR EVENT OF NOT MEETING A DESIRED OR INTENDED OBJECTIVE
Fail; Commercial failures; Phail; Epic fail; FAIL; PHAIL; Epic Fail; EPIC FAIL; Unsuccess; Fail picture; Fail pictures; Fail (Internet meme); Failed; Epic failure; Fail (meme); Failboat; Failures; Commercial failure; Failing; Fail (internet meme); Major fail; Failiure
·noun A failing; a slight fault.
II. Failure ·noun Want of success; the state of having failed.
III. Failure ·noun Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
IV. Failure ·noun A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
V. Failure ·noun Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
VI. Failure ·noun Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
failure
STATE OR EVENT OF NOT MEETING A DESIRED OR INTENDED OBJECTIVE
Fail; Commercial failures; Phail; Epic fail; FAIL; PHAIL; Epic Fail; EPIC FAIL; Unsuccess; Fail picture; Fail pictures; Fail (Internet meme); Failed; Epic failure; Fail (meme); Failboat; Failures; Commercial failure; Failing; Fail (internet meme); Major fail; Failiure
(failures)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Failure is a lack of success in doing or achieving something, especially in relation to a particular activity.
This policy is doomed to failure...
Three attempts on the British 200-metre record also ended in failure.
...feelings of failure.
? success
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If something is a failure, it is not a success.
The marriage was a failure and they both wanted to be free of it...
His six-year transition programme has by no means been a complete failure.
? success
N-COUNT
3.
If you say that someone is a failure, you mean that they have not succeeded in a particular activity, or that they are unsuccessful at everything they do.
Elgar received many honors and much acclaim and yet he often considered himself a failure...
? success
N-COUNT
4.
Your failure to do a particular thing is the fact that you do not do it, even though you were expected to do it.
...their failure to get the product mix right.
N-UNCOUNT: N to-inf, oft poss N
5.
If there is a failure of something, for example a machine or part of the body, it goes wrong and stops working or developing properly.
There were also several accidents mainly caused by engine failures on take-off...
He was being treated for kidney failure...
N-VAR: with supp, oft n N
6.
If there is a failure of a business or bank, it is no longer able to continue operating. (BUSINESS)
Business failures rose 16% last month.
= collapse
N-VAR: with supp
Wikipedia
Failure
thumb|The 1895 [[Montparnasse derailment in Paris|alt=]]
Examples of use of failure
1. Labour government on education is FAILURE, FAILURE, FAILURE.
2. The failure was a wider "health–economy" failure, exacerbated by government policy, not a hospital failure.
3. The failure to decide has been a guarantee of failure.
4. Mr Jones said he endured heart failure, kidney failure, pneumonia, septicaemia, liver failure and was ventilated on '' per cent oxygen.
5. THE REWARDS OF FAILURE What is it about Britain, that today we so richly reward failure?