fail-safe

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

[usuallybeforenoun] (of machinery or equipment) designed to stop working if anything goes wrong: a fail-safe device / mechanism / system

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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fail-safeEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary fail-safeEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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