failsafe

See also: fail-safe

English

Adjective

failsafe

1. Alternative form of fail-safe

Noun

failsafe (plural failsafes)

1. Alternative form of fail-safe
   • 2005, Norman C. Ellstrand, Dangerous Liaisons?: When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives

     Each of the proposed failsafes may, in specific cases, be effective in slowing or preventing the introgression of alleles of concern from domesticated plants into natural populations.

Verb

failsafe (third-person singular simple present failsaf, present participle ing, simple past and past participle failsafed)

1. Alternative form of fail-safe
   • 2013, Madeline Ashby, iD

     He was failsafing, too.