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autofail

autofail noun: an automatic failure.

Noun

autofail (uncountable)

  1. (informal) An automatic failure.
    • No voluntary autofail of Morale checks!2012 July 2, Playa, “[40k] [v6] First Impressions”, in rec.games.miniatures.warhammer (Usenet)
    • For Marlia, customer feedback can result in an "autofail" or an immediate dismissal for the day: "Customers make you go home because when you call the customer back, they say, 'I don't like this person and I'm giving them 1.' If you give them 1, it's a low score. They pull you off the phone."2016, Alissa Trotz, Kiran Mirchandani, Iman Khan, “Growing Downhill? Contestations of Sovereignty and the Creation of Itinerant Workers in Guyanese Call Centres”, in Kiran Mirchandani, Winifred R....

Origin of autofail

From auto- + fail.

Questions about autofail

What does autofail mean?
Autofail means an automatic failure.
What part of speech is autofail?
Autofail is a noun.

Words near autofail in the dictionary

  1. autofacilitatory
  2. autofacs
  3. autofactories
  4. autofactory
  5. autofade
  6. autofail
  7. autofecundation
  8. autofecundations
  9. autofeedback
  10. autofellate
  11. autofellated

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