inoperativeadjective
uk/ɪˈnɒp.ər.ə.tɪv/us/ˌɪnˈɑː.pɚ.ə.t̬ɪv/formal(of a law, rule, etc.) not having effect or power, or (of a machine, system, etc.) not working or not able to work as usual:
The old regulations became inoperative when the new ones were issued.
There were guidelines about the procedure to follow if any of the voting machines became inoperative.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- outage
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- whack
- wrong
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