Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with failure in American Collocation
failure
noun
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Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
US
/ˈfeɪljər/
complete or very bad
catastrophic
complete
dismal
miserable
total
utter
The policy has been a dismal failure.
Yet another blow to the movement came from the utter failure of mass migration in the year 1920.
over a period of time
persistent
repeated
Regrettably, under the current Government it has all too often been a story of repeated failure.
result in failure
end in
result in
20 out of 36 missions to Mars have ended in failure.
admit failure
admit
In trying to find something about the production to criticise, I have to admit failure.
be or call someone or something a failure
be
deem someone/something
prove
Society has deemed these children failures, before they even leave school.
The appeal for volunteers to help with the work proved a failure.
seem certain to result in failure
be doomed to
The health service is doomed to failure without radical changes in funding and approach.
rate
Efficacy was high, with a failure rate of only 0.7 per cent.