Word info

failure to launch

Noun

Meaning

failure to launch (plural failures to launch)

(of a young adult) Inability to leave home and begin a self-supported life.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

How Scale-Out and In-Memory Solve ETL, Data Mining: Failure to Launch, Harnessing the Hadoop Ecosystem, Leveraging Data for Effective Data Visualization, and more. Source: Internet

It was like "a real-life case of 'Failure to Launch,'" the AP noted, explaining: "In the 2006 Matthew McConaughey romantic comedy, the grown son's parents hire a woman to try to speed their son's exit." Source: Internet

In a real-life case of "Failure to Launch," an upstate New York judge Tuesday ordered a 30-year-old man to move out of his parents' house after they went to court to have him ejected. Source: Internet

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