failsafe

See also: fail-safe and 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^[1]:

     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 failsafes, present participle failsafing, simple past and past participle failsafed)

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

     He was failsafing, too.