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Definition of sure-fire adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

sure-fire

adjective
 
/ˈʃʊə faɪə(r)/,
 
/ˈʃɔː faɪə(r)/
 
/ˈʃʊr faɪər/
 [only before noun] (informal)
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  1. certain to be successful or to happen as you expect
    • a sure-fire success
    • Bad behaviour is a sure-fire way of getting people’s attention.
    Topics Doubt, guessing and certaintyc2, Successc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySure-fire is used with these nouns:
    • recipe
    • way
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