–noun
1. an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
2. nonperformance of something due, required, or expected: a failure to do what one has promised; a failure to appear.
3. a subnormal quantity or quality; an insufficiency: the failure of crops.
4. a condition of being bankrupt by reason of insolvency.
5. a becoming insolvent or bankrupt: the failure of a bank.
6. a person or thing that proves unsuccessful: He is a failure in his career.