out of commission
out of commission prepositional phrase: not operational; not functioning properly.
Prepositional phrase
- Not operational; not functioning properly.
- One pair of handcuffs will put both hands out of commission.1909, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “At the Table Next”, in The Man in Lower Ten, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 200
- At the same time, the valves, pistons, motion and brakegear plus ancillary equipment is overhauled, putting the locomotive out of commission for about 26 to 30 days.1962 June, “Diesel economy analysed—a postscript”, in Modern Railways, page 422
- Synonyms:
- broken, out of order, out of service
out of commission meaning in Malayalam
out of commission in Malayalam
- not in service, not in use, unserviceable
- പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന നിലയിലല്ലാത്ത, പ്രവർത്തനക്ഷമമല്ലാത്ത, ഉപയോഗത്തിലില്ലാത്ത, പ്രയോഗത്തിലില്ലാത്ത, കേടായ, കേടുപറ്റിയ
Synonyms of out of commission
Questions about out of commission
- What does out of commission mean?
- Out of commission means not operational; not functioning properly.
- What is out of commission in Malayalam?
- Out of commission in Malayalam is പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന നിലയിലല്ലാത്ത, പ്രവർത്തനക്ഷമമല്ലാത്ത, ഉപയോഗത്തിലില്ലാത്ത. See Out of commission meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is out of commission?
- Out of commission is a prepositional phrase.
Words near out of commission in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: out of commission (page history and authors); out of commission (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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