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collective failure

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meanings of collectiveand failure


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collective
adjective[before noun]
uk /kəˈlek.tɪv/ us /kəˈlek.tɪv/
of or shared by every member of a group ...
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failure
noun
uk /ˈfeɪ.ljər/ us /ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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Examples of collective failure


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There, again, that may be called a collectivefailure, but it was a dismal failure, just the same.
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This was surely the crucial failure; a collectivefailure, no doubt, but a very grave one.
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There was collective responsibility and, frankly, there was collectivefailure.
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The lack of prosecutions over a long period was indicative of the collectivefailure of the agencies responsible for the care of vulnerable young children.
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He said that you had collective successes and you had to recognise that there was such a thing as collectivefailure.
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Today, however, we are still here defending certain decisions and maintaining that it was a collectivefailure.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Large companies escape because the accident is due not to the fault of an individual, but to the collectivefailure of the company's management systems.
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Large companies escape because the accident is due not to the failure of an individual, but to the collectivefailure of the company's management systems.
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In view of the most recent developments, we are obliged to recognise that our joint efforts met with collectivefailure.
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It was not a collectivefailure on the part of the 52 nations which were ranged together on this issue.
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But where there was this collectivefailure each one, not unnaturally, seems to have "passed the buck", in the sense of clearing himself and leaving the responsibility undecided.
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It says that it is the collectivefailure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin.
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It can just fail economically, owing to a collectivefailure to grant sufficient powers to some central authority for the purpose of developing full productive capacity.
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There has perhaps been a collectivefailure over a number of years, but we have now reached the stage of finally being able to resolve this issue.
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Stonehenge represents a collectivefailure of government over the years to implement a successful scheme both to provide public access and protect this world heritage site.
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She expressed dismay at the results of the summit which she considered a collectivefailure to the benefit of climatoskeptics and lobbies linked to oil.
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They are due to individual or collective failures of design, maintenance, management and organization of systems, both human and computer.
He defined the term as the collectivefailure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin.
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We owe that much at least to the many people whose lives have been blighted by our collective failures of the past.
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