fatal defect
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffatalanddefect
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fatal
adjective
uk/ˈfeɪ.təl/us/ˈfeɪ.t̬əl/
A fatal illness, accident, etc. ...
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defect
noun[C]
uk/ˈdiː.fekt/us/ˈdiː.fekt/
a fault or problem in something or someone that spoils that thing or person or causes it, him, or her not to ...
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(Definition offatalanddefectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Here is thefataldefect.
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But there is onefataldefect.
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In my view, that is not afataldefect.
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That would be afataldefectin submarines.
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The firstfataldefectis that it does not.
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To leave one out seems to me to be afataldefect.
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As he noticed, and mentioned, that is afataldefectin any quota.
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This is thefataldefectwhich has marred his whole régime in these seven years.
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But, unfortunately, the green belt policy that he promulgated had afataldefect.
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But all these administrations had onefataldefect, they deprived the people of responsibility.
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It is, of course, an inherent and afataldefect, in the system.
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Last week it was discovered, with no reply from him, that there was afataldefectin his beautiful subsection.
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Thefataldefectof the present proposals is that they are not businesslike, that they are not sound.
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Thefataldefectof the economics of the nineteenth century was that they failed entirely to take account of that wealth of human capital.
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His chief defect—which, after all, is not afataldefect—seems to be to want to please everybody at once.
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We must get rid of thefataldefect—it is one which costs lives—of this one-year-at-a-time approach.
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It contains afataldefectof drafting which could no doubt be put right, but even apart from that it is far too drastic.
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Failure to use this phrase correctly could be afataldefectand so cause a case to fail.
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