collective failure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcollectiveandfailure
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collective
adjective[before noun]
uk/kəˈlek.tɪv/us/kəˈlek.tɪv/
of or shared by every member of a group ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofcollectiveandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There, again, that may be called acollectivefailure, but it was a dismal failure, just the same.
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This was surely the crucial failure; acollectivefailure, no doubt, but a very grave one.
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There was collective responsibility and, frankly, there wascollectivefailure.
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The lack of prosecutions over a long period was indicative of thecollectivefailureof the agencies responsible for the care of vulnerable young children.
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He said that you had collective successes and you had to recognise that there was such a thing ascollectivefailure.
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Today, however, we are still here defending certain decisions and maintaining that it was acollectivefailure.
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Large companies escape because the accident is due not to the fault of an individual, but to thecollectivefailureof the company's management systems.
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Large companies escape because the accident is due not to the failure of an individual, but to thecollectivefailureof the company's management systems.
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In view of the most recent developments, we are obliged to recognise that our joint efforts met withcollectivefailure.
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It was not acollectivefailureon the part of the 52 nations which were ranged together on this issue.
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But where there was thiscollectivefailureeach one, not unnaturally, seems to have "passed the buck", in the sense of clearing himself and leaving the responsibility undecided.
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It says that it is thecollectivefailureof an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin.
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It can just fail economically, owing to acollectivefailureto grant sufficient powers to some central authority for the purpose of developing full productive capacity.
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There has perhaps been acollectivefailureover a number of years, but we have now reached the stage of finally being able to resolve this issue.
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Stonehenge represents acollectivefailureof government over the years to implement a successful scheme both to provide public access and protect this world heritage site.
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She expressed dismay at the results of the summit which she considered acollectivefailureto the benefit of climatoskeptics and lobbies linked to oil.
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They are due to individual or collective failures of design, maintenance, management and organization of systems, both human and computer.
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He defined the term as thecollectivefailureof an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin.
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We owe that much at least to the many people whose lives have been blighted by our collective failures of the past.
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