defunct
IPA: dɪfˈʌŋkt
noun
- The dead person (referred to).
verb
- To make defunct.
adjective
- (now rare) Deceased, dead.
- No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
- (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again.
- (computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
- (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
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Examples of "defunct" in Sentences
- The machine became defunct the next year.
- The airline went defunct at the end of 1991.
- By the turn of the century the Boodlers were defunct.
- Not related to the defunct Chicago Soldiers of the ABA.
- I believe the Knights of the Benevolent City are defunct.
- Because of the unsuccessful season the club became defunct.
- It's likely he fancied the name of the then defunct weekly.
- It is the second mall in the city after the defunct Alta mall.
- It was also the capital of the defunct province of the same name.
- It is the site of a number of now defunct sardine canning factories.
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