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Definition of "troubleshoot" []

  • To work or serve as a troubleshooter. (verb-intransitive)
  • To investigate as a troubleshooter; determine and settle problems with: "cited the service it performed in trouble-shooting an employee problem” ( Vance Packard). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "troubleshoot" in a sentence
  • "It's for this reason I had to rifle through America's past as I wanted to try 'troubleshoot' this situation, and I keep stumbling over the same problem: the assumptions set out at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 to this day are the cause of the symptoms seen with this guy."
  • ""Over the past six to 12 months, obviously, we've been in a mode to plan and research and kind of troubleshoot," he said."
  • "Granted it is less expensive, but keep in mind that if you have a cartridge refilled, sometimes this disables the function on your computer to "troubleshoot" any printer ink issues."