failure
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈfeɪljər/
- Specialized
:
insolvencia
- His financial struggles led to a failure that affected his credit rating significantly.
- failure to pay
- bank failure
Even as we did that financial failure, it loomed over us for years.
- Even as we did that financial failure, it loomed over us for years.
- All right, so the cure for a full banking system failure is a partial banking system failure.
- The SIPIC insures your brokerage accounts against losses due to failure of your stockbroker.
Examples
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Merrill Lynch was also on the brink of failure.
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Meanwhile, his failure to pay has brought us to the verge of bankruptcy.
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The default event include bankruptcy, failure to pay, and a few other events.
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American officials feel frustrated by their failure to achieve that hegemony.
Academic text (1999) -
"A lot of us remembered our state's failure to ratify the federal ERA."
Academic text (1999) -
Did the failure of Camille set back Valentino's career?
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Graph 1 also illustrates the failure of another recent stimulus attempt: the 2009 "cash for clunkers" program.
Academic text (2011) -
"You could be the difference between solvency and failure for any number of marginal operators," Karrde said bluntly.
Fiction book (1991) -
Other errors are grounded in a serious failure to understand how culture influences diffusion (Blaut 1987).
Academic text (1999) -
The company declared bankruptcy due to its failure to pay creditors on time.
Synonyms
315
4.1
A legal state when a person or company cannot pay their debts
74
5.2
Failure to pay money you owe on a loan
12
6.8
A situation when someone cannot pay money they owe
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
48
3.0
A condition when the heart cannot pump enough blood around the body
18
3.0
A condition when the kidneys stop working and cannot remove waste or keep water and salts in balance
- Specialized
10
3.5
A condition in which the heart cannot pump blood well, causing fluid to build up in the body
- Specialized
9
3.9
A serious condition where the kidneys stop removing waste and balancing body fluids
- Specialized
1
4.1
A long-term condition in which the kidneys slowly stop working well
- Specialized
1
4.2
A sudden loss of the kidneys' ability to remove waste from the blood
- Specialized
1
5.1
A sudden severe loss of kidney function caused by injury or infection
- Specialized
The heart and blood vessels cannot send enough blood to the parts of the body
- Specialized
Long-term loss of kidney function that makes waste build up in the body
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A condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood for the body
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Money a company loses when faulty products reach customers, for example from returns or repairs
- Specialized
Money a company loses when faulty products or services cause problems for customers and the company
- Specialized
Costs a company pays when it finds and fixes or throws away defective products before they reach customers
How Solvent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Failure comes from the old verb fail, which meant 'to be lacking' or 'to fall short'. So in money and business, failure means a person or company 'cannot pay' what they owe.