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government failures

government failures is the plural of government failure.

Meaning of government failure

Noun

government failure (countable and uncountable, plural government failures)

  1. A situation in which a government intervention causes an economic inefficiency that would not exist in a true free market.

Questions about government failures

What is government failures the plural of?
Government failures is the plural of government failure.

Words near government failures in the dictionary

  1. government cheese
  2. government debt
  3. government expenditure
  4. government expenditures
  5. government failure
  6. government failures
  7. government formation
  8. Government Hill
  9. Government House
  10. government in exile
  11. government issue

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