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failing en · ADP
Pronunciation
Meanings
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If what follows is not possible; without.
A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.
Deriveds
unfailing · failingness · nonfailing · failingly
Translations (13)
ky кемчилдик (if not possible) · ky жетишпестик (if not possible) · arz مادام ما حصلش (if not possible) · es a falta de (if not possible) · ky ката (if not possible) · ar فِي حَال عَدَم حُدُوث (if not possible) · bg ако не (if not possible) · bg в отсъствие на (if not possible) · de in Ermangelung (if not possible) · ky кемчилик (if not possible) · de mangels (if not possible) · de ohne (if not possible) · ky аздык (if not possible)
failing en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Meanings
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weakness; defect
His worst failing is his temper.
At the High Court in Aberdeen in September, NR pleaded guilty to a series of failings, including failing to tell the driver that it was unsafe to drive the train at the 75mph line speed.
2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15:
Forms
Synonyms
shortcoming · trouble
Translations (15)
sv svaghet (defect) · es falta (defect) · de Defizit (defect) · bg недостатък (defect) · ro defect (defect) · es lacra (defect) · es defecto (defect) · sv fel (defect) · sv brist (defect) · de Fehler (defect) · de Unzulänglichkeit (defect) · de Mangel (defect) · bg грешка (defect) · ga laige (defect) · de Schwäche (defect)
failing en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of fail
As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist.
1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14: