reliables
Sayri-LY-uh-buhlz/ɹɪˈlaɪəbəlz/
- 1Plural of reliable.
Among the team's reliables, the veteran defender stood out for steady play.
The garden's reliables came back every spring without any fuss.
Note
A plural that only the noun can make. The adjective reliable never takes an -s, so reliables always means dependable people or things counted as a group, such as a team's steady players or a garden's faithful perennials. The networking adjective, for delivery that is guaranteed or reported as failed, has no matching noun, so this plural never carries that technical meaning.
reliables is a form of reliable
reliable, noun: A person or thing that can be depended on; one that consistently performs as needed. Full entry
- Forms
- reliablereliables plural
- Spelling
- reliable → reliables: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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