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market failures

market failures is the plural of market failure.

Meaning of market failure

Noun

market failure (countable and uncountable, plural market failures)

  1. A situation in which the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient.
    • From a policy perspective, market failure should be a matter of concern when market performance significantly deviates from the appropriate efficiency benchmark.2007, Clifford Winston, Government Failure versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research and Government Performance, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 3

Questions about market failures

What is market failures the plural of?
Market failures is the plural of market failure.

Words near market failures in the dictionary

  1. market economies
  2. market economy
  3. market equilibrium
  4. market equilibriums
  5. market failure
  6. market failures
  7. market force
  8. market forces
  9. market foreclosure
  10. market foreclosures
  11. market fundamentalism

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