Usually means: Unsuccessful attempt to achieve goal.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word fails:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. fails: Merriam-Webster
  2. fails: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fails: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fail's, Fails, fails: Wordnik
  5. fails: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Fails, fails: Wiktionary
  7. fails: Dictionary.com
  8. fails: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Fails: Rhymezone
  10. fails: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fails: Legal dictionary
  2. fails: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fails: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fails: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fails: Idioms

(Note: See fail as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (Fails)

name:  A surname (common: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #16551)


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