market failure
[ U ]
lack of success in trying to do something:
If you're too scared of failure, you'll never try to achieve anything.
[ U ]
a situation in which a machine or system stops working:
The cause of the crash is now thought to be engine failure.
[ C ]
someone or something that is not successful:
He always thought of himself as a failure.
 failure to do sth
a situation in which someone does not do something they should do or are expected to do:
The banks' failure to regulate more reckless lending led directly to the financial crisis.

Examples of failure

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In organic farming there are even some years with complete crop failures, which must be included in the calculation.
Second, it must be noted that present extremely low levels of development are largely due to the failures of past centralised regimes.
Alternatively, higher early depression scores in the intervention group could reflect a failure of randomization or simple random fluctuation.
One participant was removed due to a technical failure and four because of their high overall error rates (>20%) in the experimental task.
This process does require technical knowledge for rule construction and assumes that the user understands negation as failure extensively.
Technical failures, together with the clumsiness and indiscretion of its agents, wrecked operations with surprising frequency.
There is also the continuing failure of law enforcement to control illegal harvesting, under-reporting and smuggling of the timber.
And, so, it is by virtue of this conceptual connection that the failure of the ontological argument is supposed to compromise the cosmological argument.
These results support the claim that a failure of self-monitoring may underlie the core symptoms of schizophrenia.
However, there is no statistical remedy for failure to recall episodes or symptoms.
Externalities do not lead to institutional failure, they are a form of institutional failure - environmental problems are frequently symptoms of such failure.
The increasing failure rate property of consecutive-k-out-of-n systems.
There are many possible explanations for the students' failure.
In addition to the diagnoses of cardiac failure, training level of admitting physicians in emergency depar tments was an independent risk factor for early readmission.
Patients suffering from progressive autonomic failure with primary degeneration of autonomic neurons show a characteristic inability to contract the distal urethral sphincter.
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Collocations withfailure

failure

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abysmal failure
The scheme was an abysmal failure even while forced labour was tolerated.
academic failure
Structural relations model of self-rejection, disposition to deviance, and academicfailure.
admission of failure
Assistance from social services and voluntary organisations is tantamount to an admissionoffailure and a signal to those being cared for that they have become a burden.
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