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defunct

  • adjective
  • /dɪˈfʌŋkt/

No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.

Other meanings

  1. No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.

  2. 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.

Example sentences

  • “The project is now defunct.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Latin "dēfunctus".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “defunct” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.