Defunct
defunct (adjective) - does not exist, function, or operate anymore
now defunct
a defunct political party
the now-defunct Thai Rak Thai party
long defunct
be defunct
become defunct
virtually defunct
a defunct company
a defunct department
a defunct service
a defunct product
a defunct technology
a defunct scheme
slaves of some defunct economist
all but defunct
almost defunct
nearly defunct
now nearly defunct
now largely defunct
now sadly defunct
considered to be defunct
considered defunct
Example sentences:
* They bought all the furnishings and equipment they needed for their new restaurant machines from a now defunct bistro downtown.
* "Practical men, who believes themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." (Quote from the economist Keynes in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, see Krugman)
* The often-cited reason for the concentration of anti-charter votes in the North and Northeast is that these areas were strongholds of the now-defunct Thai Rak Thai party - the power base of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
* He used a long defunct die casting machine to make the golf club heads.
* In a bid to renew and add vitality to the resort town, both the old movie theatre and the grand old hotel, both now defunct, have been remodelled and given a new face.
* They were found guilty of diverting funds from a now defunct savings and loan to a money losing speculative real estate deal.
* He had been a senior advisor of the now defunct Bangkok Bank of Commerce (BBC).
* They seized illegal publications, flags, weapons from the now defunct Communist Party of Burma.
* "Reminded of my defunct parent, I said, 'Father believed in the Resurrection.'" (Source: British National Corpus)
* After they cut down all the trees in the neighborhood everyone in the now defunct local paper mill lost their job.
* They have settled in sprawling camps around the town, building rickety wooden huts covered with brown paper from the defunct local paper mill. (Source: British National Corpus)
* Management decided to spin off a smaller leaner high tech start up built around a promising technology inherited from the now defunct software company that it used to be a part of.
