failsafe

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A form of fail-safe — That does not cause undue damage in the event of failure.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. alternativeAlternative form of fail-safe.
nounfailsafe (plural failsafes)

plural failsafes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of fail-safe.

    Each of the proposed failsafes may, in specific cases, be effective in slowing or preventing the introgression of alleles of concern from domesticated plants into natural populations.

    2005, Norman C. Ellstrand, Dangerous Liaisons?: When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives
verbfailsafe (third-person singular simple present failsafes, present participle failsafing, simple past and past participle failsafed)

present singular third person failsafes · participle present failsafing · participle past failsafed · past failsafed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of fail-safe.

    2013, Madeline Ashby, iD He was failsafing, too.

Synonyms & antonyms

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Cite this entry
APA

failsafe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/failsafe

MLA

“failsafe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/failsafe. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “failsafe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/failsafe.

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