transcription, транскрипция: [ feɪlɪŋ ]
( failings)
1.
The failings of someone or something are their faults or unsatisfactory features.
Like many in Russia, she blamed the country’s failings on futile attempts to catch up with the West...
= shortcoming
N-COUNT : usu pl , oft with poss
2.
You say failing that to introduce an alternative, in case what you have just said is not possible.
Find someone who will let you talk things through, or failing that, write down your thoughts.
PHRASE : PHR with cl / group