problems
PRAH-bluhmz/ˈpɹɑbləmz/UKPROB-luhmz/ˈpɹɒbləmz/
- 1Plural of problem.
The company faced serious financial problems after the merger.
Engineers worked through the night to fix the technical problems.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, and it carries every meaning the singular has. Financial problems are difficulties to be dealt with. The problems at the end of a textbook chapter are exercises set for solving. Someone's drug problems name an addiction. The form never tells these apart; the surrounding words do, so a phrase like problems to work through can lean either way.
problems is a form of problem
problem, noun: A difficulty or harmful situation or condition that must be dealt with or overcome. Full entry
- Forms
- problemproblems plural
- Spelling
- problem → problems: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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