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fair-weather
[ fair-weth-er ]
adjective
- used in or intended for fair weather only.
- weakening or failing in time of trouble:
His fair-weather friends left him when he lost his money.
fair-weather
adjective
- suitable for use in fair weather only
- not reliable or present in situations of hardship or difficulty (esp in the phrase fair-weather friend )
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fair-weather1
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Example Sentences
Fairweather expects more new listings to make for a more balanced market and more home sales.
Fairweather anticipates more new homes will be built next year than in any year since 2006.
Although mortgage rates will remain low primarily due to a sluggish global economic recovery, Fairweather sees them moving higher to around 3 percent.
Frustrating as regulars find these fair-weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says.
Turkey has been a fair weather ally against ISIS and al-Nusra as well.
This entails letting go, lightly, of fair-weather friendships that no longer serve you.
She was not a fair-weather friend, and since Jennie was good enough to offer her a home she felt she ought to go at once.
The glow at evening is generally followed by fair weather the next day; but the fair weather is not an effect of a clear sunset.
The pass over the mountains is circuitous and steep, but in fair weather persons travel on the road along the shore.
If fair throughout, and rain at the change, the fair weather will probably return at the fourth or fifth day.
When, with returning fair weather, the atmospheric pressure increases, the water can no longer bulge or drop out of the bulb.
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