adjective (formal)
1 ill and not improving:
She looked after her ailing father.
2 (of a business, government, etc.) having problems and getting weaker:
measures to help the ailing economy * A new art gallery will give a boost to this ailing industrial city.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ailing is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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