Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

government failure

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English

Syllables
gov-ern-men-t -fail-ure
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A situation in which a government intervention causes an economic inefficiency that would not exist in a true free market.

Countable; Uncountable

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What does government failure mean?
A situation in which a government intervention causes an economic inefficiency that would not exist in a true free market.

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