power failure

English

Noun

power failure (plural power failures)

1. (electricity) An unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity.

   Synonyms: blackout, outage, power cut

   • 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 43:

     Sadly, some modern rolling stock engineers must hang their heads in shame after the recent power failures on Thameslink, where trains had to be reset by technicians after the supply frequency wandered off the 50hz.

Translations

power failure — see also power cut,‎ outage,‎ blackout

• Finnish: sähkökatko (fi)
• French: coupure de courant, panne de courant, coupure d’electricité, panne d’electricité
• German: Stromausfall (de) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strømbrudd n

• Portuguese: queda de energia
• Romanian: cădere de tensiune (ro) f

References

• “power failure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.