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How to use defunct in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective, verb, noun

Defunct means no longer in use or active, nor expected to be again. Example: “Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.”

More sentences with defunct

  • Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.From the entry reap
  • Dad started out parking cars at the Dunes,” he said, referring to a defunct casino where Ms.2022 March 11, Danny Hakim, “Nevada’s Costly, Photo-Finish Senate Race Pits Abortion vs. Economy”, in The New York Times. From the entry Nevadan
  • The landrush to all intents and purposes made the cowboy defunct.2000, Susan Hayward, Cinema Studies. From the entry landrush
  • The Kosi canal system has become defunct due to siltation and nonmaintenance.1998, Kedar Nath Prasad, Dimensions of Development: Analysis of an Underdeveloped State, page 242. From the entry nonmaintenance
  • First acquire a defunct oscilloscope C.R.T. of the flat face variety and devacuate it.1976, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal, volume 32, page 71. From the entry devacuate
  • Everything that Brinnin writes about is defunct.1972 January 3, “Leviathans”, in Time, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2013. From the entry leisured
  • Sometime in the afternoon, we reached Hantan, a town of forty thousand people along the now defunct Peiping-Hankow Railway.[1949, Jack Belden, “Traveling Companions”, in China Shakes the World, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 38. From the entry Handan
  • It was a small, stuffy, defunct room, of mahogany, and deathly enlargements of photographs of departed people done in carbon.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry carbon print
  • According to Ringo, the convention then pushed its conservative members out of its planning committee, attendance dropped over years, and it’s now defunct.2018 April 17, Jon del Arroz, “Author John Ringo Responds to SJW Assault That Led to Sci-Fi Convention Ban”, in Dangerous, archived from…. From the entry get woke, go broke
  • Allen, president of the defunct board.1924, William Allen White, Helen Ogden Mahin, The Editor and His People, page 183. From the entry swirr
  • The largest rarely used facility is an advanced research park in Nantou County’s Chunghsing New Village (中興新村), which used to house the defunct Taiwan Provincial Government.2016 November 1, Shelley Shan, “‘Mosquito buildings’ to be put to use”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01…. From the entry Chunghsing

Meaning of defunct

  1. adjective No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
  2. adjective No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
  3. adjective 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.

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Questions about defunct in a sentence

How do you use defunct in a sentence?
Defunct is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.”
What is a short sentence with defunct?
“Allen, president of the defunct board.”
What does defunct mean?
Defunct means no longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.

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