Defunct

Definition: Defunct

Defunct

Adjective

1. No longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization".

2. Having ceased to exist or live; "the will of a defunct aunt"; "a defunct Indian tribe".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "defunct" was first used: 1548. (references)

Finance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Defunct

Corpse

Noun: corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil.

Death

Adjective: dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life. Verb: dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.

Inexistence

Perished, annihilated; Verb: extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind; defunct; (dead).

Crosswords: Defunct

Romanian (defunct, the departed).

Books

• Financial Post Survey - Predecessor & Defunct (reference)

• FP Survey - Predecessor & Defunct (reference)

• Survey of Predecessor and Defunct Companies 1994 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Maad You Me Defunct A.D. (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SEALAB I was the first habitat in the Navy's now defunct man-in-the-sea program. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Pile of tailing from gold mill, defunct. Idaho Springs, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Children

Kenya

The health care system for school children, which once provided periodic medical checkups and free milk, is defunct. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

According to the Ministry of Justice, most of these organizations were defunct, existing on paper only. (references)

Burma

In some townships, authorities pressured NLD officers to resign, and then declared the local party organizations defunct, due to a lack of recognized officers. (references)

Economic History

Somalia

Most industry defunct since 1991. (references)

Liberia

The MRU became all but defunct because of the Liberian civil war which spilled over into neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea. (references)

Kazakhstan

Thus far, the EAEC has made little progress in creating a free trade zone, as had been the case with the now defunct Customs Union. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

School facilities and health clinics in all five institutions are defunct; prisoners as young as age 12 perform manual labor from dawn until dusk. (references)

Zambia

During the year, a number of citizens remained in self-imposed political exile in foreign countries, including: Liberal Progressive Front President Dr. Roger Chongwe, in Australia; Zambia Democratic Congress General Secretary Azwell Banda, in South Africa; former editor of the defunct newspaper, Confidential, Reverend Steward Mwila, in South Africa; and former President Kaunda's daughter, Catherine Mwanza, in South Africa. (references)

Political Economy

Liberia

In 2000 the Government revived the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), which had become defunct during the civil war. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani standards remain largely based on those of the defunct Soviet State Committee in Standards, though the oil and gas industry has made progress in bringing ISO 9000 standards to energy development. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "defunct": defunct businesses ♦ defunct law ♦ defunct process ♦ now defunct ♦ the defunct. Additional references.

Ending with "defunct": now-defunct.

Albanian

i zhdukur (evaporated, extinct, lost, missing, vanished), i vdekur (asleep, dead, deceased, decedent, departed, extinct, gangrenous, gathered to one's fathers, lifeless, stone-dead), i ndjerë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميت (dead, deceased, departed, lifeless), ‏الميت (dead). (various references)

Bulgarian 

починал (deceased, gone to his reward), покоен (deceased, decedent, departed, late). (various references)

Chinese 

停止活动. (various references)

Czech

zesnulý (dead, deceased, departed, late), zemřelý (dead), zaniklý (lost), neplatný (inoperative, lapsed, null, null and void, out of date, spoilt, unlawful, void). (various references)

Farsi 

مرده (Dead, Exanimate, Extinct, Vapid), تمام شده (Extinct, Through), ازبین رفته (Extinct), درگذشته (Yore). (various references)

French

défunt (dead, deceased person, departed, departing), décédé (dead, dead person, deceased). (various references)

German

verstorben (dead, deceased, departed, late). (various references)

Greek 

νεκρόσ (dead, goner, lifeless), μακαρίτησ (deceased, late), αποθάνων (deceased). (various references)

Hebrew 

בלתי קים, � פטר (deceased, exempt). (various references)

Hungarian

elhunyt (deceased, departed), kihalt (extinct). (various references)

Italian

defunto (bereaved, dead, dead person, deceased, late), morto (breathless, casualty, dead, dummy, late, slack, there), liquidato. (various references)

Manx

marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, killing, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, sleeping, stagnant), caillt (irrecoverable, lost, shipwrecked), anvio (extinct, inanimate). (various references)

Pig Latin

efunctday.(various references)

Portuguese

defunto (cadaver, corpse, departed), falecido (deceased, gone), extinto (extinct, former, now defunct, out). (various references)

Romanian

defunct (the departed), decedat (dead, deceased, decedent, late), mort (breathless, cold, dead, dead and gone, dead beat, deceased, dummy, exanimate, extinct, gone, in the dust, lifeless), morţii (the majority). (various references)

Russian 

несуществующий (nonexistent), больше не существующий, покойный (decd deceased, deceased, decedent, departed, late). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mrtav (dead, deceased, extinct), koji je prestao da postoji. (various references)

Spanish

difunto (deceased, late). (various references)

Swedish

avliden (dead, deceased, late). (various references)

Turkish

geçersiz (full of holes, ineffective, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, no-account, non-effective, nude, null, off, out of use, paper, unsound, void), ölmüş (dead, deceased, departed, gone), ölü (carcass, casualty, corpse, dead, deceased, exanimate, inanimate, late, lifeless, stiff, stone-dead, the dead). (various references)

Ukrainian

вимерлий (extinct), неіснуючий (non-existence, non-existent, off the map), зниклий (perished), покійний (deceased, departed, poor), померлий (asleep, dead, departed, now defunct). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quá cố, mất (minus), không còn t�"n tại nữa, chết (aloft, exanimate, mortal), $the defunct$ người chết. (various references)

defuncta, defuncti, defunctis, defuncto, defunctos, defunctus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Defunct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defuct, defunk, desunct. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fecund.

-2 letters: centu, dunce, educt, tuned, unfed.

-3 letters: cent, cued, cute, deft, dent, duce, duct, duet, dune, dunt, fend, feud, fund, nude, tend, tune, unde.

-4 letters: cud, cue, cut, den, due, dun, ecu, eft, end, fed, fen, fet, feu, fud, fun, net, nut, ted, ten, tun.

-5 letters: de, ed, ef, en, et, ne, nu, un.

+1 letter: confuted.

+2 letters: fecundate, fecundity.

+3 letters: fecundated, fecundates, functioned, unaffected, undercroft, uninfected.

+4 letters: centrifuged, countrified, countryfied, fecundating, fecundation, fecundities, genuflected, uncertified, undercrofts, uninflected.

+5 letters: confabulated, counterfired, fecundations, manufactured, unaffectedly.