Failure Extra Examples Success Doomed Efforts I Business

• the success or failure of the plan depends on you.
• she is still coming to terms with the failure of her marriage.
• the attempt was doomed to failure.
• all my efforts ended in failure.

failure

1. lack of success in doing or achieving something
• OPPOSITE success
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• The success or failure of the plan depends on you.
• She is still coming to terms with the failure of her marriage.
• The attempt was doomed to failure.
• All my efforts ended in failure.
• the problems of economic failure and increasing unemployment
• Their bid to win the contract resulted in abject failure.
• The decision to withdraw funding represents a failure of imagination.
• the intelligence failures that preceded the terrorist attacks

Extra Examples

• All her efforts were doomed to failure.
• Children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism.
• Fear of failure should not deter you from trying.
• He attributes the failure of the project to lack of government support.
• He was too proud to admit failure.
• I blame the failure of our relationship on my husband.
• I will not tolerate failure.
• Initial failure was followed by unexpected, if modest, success.
• John had a long history of academic failure.
• There is a high failure rate with this treatment.
• War is the ultimate failure of public communication.
2. a person or thing that is not successful
• OPPOSITE success
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• The whole thing was a complete failure.
• A team learns from experience, both successes and failures.
• He was a failure as a teacher.

Extra Examples

• Her ideas were large: if she could not succeed, she would at least be a heroic failure.
• I felt (like) a complete failure.
• The film was one of the rare failures in his career.
• The venture proved a costly failure.
• This breach constitutes a serious failure in performance.
• failures arising from circumstances beyond your control
• to learn from past failures
• The project was considered a failure in both technical and economic terms.
• The rebellion was a dismal failure.
3. an act of not doing something, especially something that you are expected to do
• Failure to comply with the regulations will result in prosecution.
• the city's failure to provide an efficient public transport system
• the government's failure to carry out reforms in the energy sector
• His confession followed repeated failures to appear in court.
• the failure of the United Nations to maintain food supplies
• a report on the failure by the police to protect her

Extra Examples

• Nothing can excuse your failure to ask my permission.
• He lamented his failure to formulate a satisfactory theory.
• government failure to listen to the voice of the electorate
4. the state of not working correctly or as expected; an occasion when this happens
• patients suffering from heart/kidney/liver failure
• renal/respiratory failure
• Production has been hampered by mechanical failure.
• A power failure plunged everything into darkness.
• The cause of the crash was given as engine failure.
• Poor maintenance caused the failure of two electricity generators.

Extra Examples

• patients with chronic renal failure
• the commonest cause of acute liver failure
• The aircraft seems to have experienced an engine failure.
• a failure in the computer system
• a rare viral infection that can lead to heart failure
5. a situation in which a business has to close because it is not successful
• There has been an alarming increase in business failures.
• Are we going to see more closures or failures in the ISP business?
• Business failures rose by 30% in 2018.
6. a situation in which crops do not grow correctly and do not produce food
• Bad weather has resulted in crop failure.

Word Origin

• mid 17th cent. (originally as failer, in the senses ‘non-occurrence’ and ‘stopping of supply’): from Anglo-Norman French failer for Old French faillir, based on Latin fallere ‘deceive’.