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What does at fault mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word at fault? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. guilty, responsible, deserving blame
  2. Of hunting dogs: unable to find the scent.
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The second exception to the general rule occurs when a party is at fault in employing wrong or defective procedures.
It is not the mechanism of A-levels which is at fault but, rather, the conscious decision to change the way they are marked.
It may be that knowledge of such facts will also serve to bring home to him the fact that the defendant has been negligent or at fault.
Such behaviour sounds scarcely credible, but I'm sure memory isn't at fault here.
Others suggested that he was at fault for trying to present an alibi defense.
It is not always the players who are at fault and referees must he accountable.

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