The phrase "avert failure" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing strategies or actions taken to prevent a negative outcome or failure in a project or situation.
Example: "To ensure the project's success, we must implement measures to avert failure at all costs."
Alternatives: "prevent failure" or "avoid failure".
With that money, the firms could absorb the losses that they are bound to take as their investments go sour and avert failure and panic.
This is an area where the public sector needs to catch up with the corporate world; governments are too often inept at responding in ways that avert failure.
Implementing Enterprise-Wide Transformation is designed to help senior executives avert failure, create cultures of agility and resiliency, and develop a customized blueprint for large-scale transformation in their organization.
Seeing and attending to near misses requires organizational alertness, but no amount of attention will avert failure if people aren't motivated to expose near misses or, worse, are discouraged from doing so.
A direct rival to Purplebricks, eMoov, collapsed last week, while shareholders in Countrywide, previously the UK's largest estate agent, were forced to inject £140m into the company in August to avert failure.
The parent pulls an all-nighter with the student to avert failure.
To maximize utilization, Rockwell runs remote simulations and installs internet-connected "smart assets" to predict and avert failures before they happen.
By the time the mess was cleaned up, Continental Illinois had averted failure only through a $4.5 billion federal bailout -- then the largest in history.
The idea of a bail-in is that a bank's creditors agree in advance to have a restructuring imposed on them rapidly if the firm hits the skids, averting failure and any systemic fallout.
Along the way he averted failure myriad times, rescued by luck and powerful allies.
For nearly two decades, doctors have relied on one treatment to try to avert kidney failure in patients with Type 2 diabetes and kidney disease.
