ailingail‧ing /ˈeɪlɪŋ/ adjective [usually before noun]Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
He's taking care of his ailing mother.
Smith transformed GM's ailing European operations in the '80s.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
It also owns an insurance company, Fata, and has a stake in an ailing private bank.
It can repair the shattered beliefs and, sometimes, the ailing soul of an organization gone awry.
It may also come to the rescue of ailing banks.
Later in marriage a particularly keen sense of commitment may be felt towards aged or ailing parents.
Puppies will herd hens in a farmyard, just as a pack of wolves will encircle an ailing prey.
The government is trying to boost the ailing economy by converting the defence industry to civilian production.
The traveller, we now discover, is a young man whose ailing parents want him to stay within reach.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►weak/ailing/depressed economy
· The economy is weak and consumer confidence is low.
1an ailing company, organization, or economy is having a lot of problems and is not successful: the ailing car industry2formal ill and not likely to get better