defunct

英 [dɪˈfʌŋkt]

美 [dɪˈfʌŋkt]

adj.  不再存在的; 不再起作用的; 不再使用的
n.  死者; 死人

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Collins.1 / BNC.14322 / COCA.15391

牛津词典

adj.

• 不再存在的；不再起作用的；不再使用的
  no longer existing, operating or being used

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 不再存在的;停止运转的;坏了的
  If something isdefunct, it no longer exists or has stopped functioning or operating.
  1. ...the leader of the now defunct Social Democratic Party...
     现已不复存在的社会民主党的领导人
  2. They bought all their equipment from a defunct brewery in Manhattan.
     他们那些设备都是从曼哈顿一家已经关闭的啤酒厂购买的。

英英释义

adj

• having ceased to exist or live
  1. the will of a defunct aunt
  2. a defunct Indian tribe
• no longer in force or use
  1. a defunct law
  2. a defunct organization

双语例句

• Such a merger would bring together two state-owned companies currently competing head-on in China, with saloons based on designs and technology acquired from defunct British carmaker MG Rover.
  合并将使两家目前正面展开竞争的国有企业走到一起。这两家公司分别收购了英国破产汽车制造商MG罗孚（MGRover）的设计和技术，以此为基础生产轿车。
• Apple dipped into some of its reserves recently when it teamed-up with Microsoft to buy a batch of patents from defunct Canadian firm Nortel.
  而最近苹果也和微软共同合作，开始动用自己的资金储备来购买已经破产了的加拿大公司Nortel的专利。
• And the train station becomes defunct.
  然后火车站就不起作用了。
• The now defunct campaign against racial discrimination.
  现已不存在的反种族歧视运动。
• Backups that are specific to a invalid recovery path become defunct.
  这些无效恢复路径所对应的备份也将失效。
• In this Nov.21,2009 photo, defunct machinery is seen at the Union Carbide pesticide plant.
  在这个2009年11月21日照片，不存在机械见于联合碳化物公司农药厂。
• This schema object is defunct. No modifications are allowed until it is made active again.
  此架构对象不起作用。在重新激活之前，不能进行任何改动。
• By the end of its run, her ( now defunct) weekly column had few readers.
  在停办之前，她的每周专栏就已经几乎没有了读者。
• Now, a Unladen swallow retrospective confirms that the project is defunct and is no longer being developed.
  现在，一篇回顾unladenswallow的文章已经确认了这个项目的死亡，不会再进行开发。
• Many of the publications from which I've excerpted materials are now defunct.
  许多出版从哪一个我已经摘录材料是现在死的。