failures

Noun

failure (countable and uncountable, plural failures)

1. State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
   • For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
   1. A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life.
      • heart failure
2. Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
3. An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success.

   Synonyms:

   loser, dud

4. Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
   • Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
5. Bankruptcy.