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nonoperational

British  
/ ˌnɒnɒpərˈeɪʃənəl /

adjective

  1. not in working order or ready to use

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A California law passed in 2023, Senate Bill X1-2, also prohibits refineries from passing along nonoperational costs — such as the Superfund fee — to consumers, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2025

But, said Kivu’s Swanson, a “lot of times the networks are nonoperational — completely fried. The bad guys will come in and delete the backups or encrypt them.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021

Banks continued to limit growth in their balance sheets by allowing wholesale liabilities to mature and encouraging customers to shift some nonoperational deposits to money market funds.

From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2021

He said the agents had been reassigned to “nonsupervisory, nonoperational duties.”

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2015

The computers had taken on water and were nonoperational.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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