out-of-service

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out-of-service

adjective out of service

  1. not comparable Not working, not functioning, broken; currently unavailable. No one much likes it when something—an empty cab, an out-of-service subway train, summer—goes by without stopping.

    Similar: out of commission, out-of-order, bad, borked, broken, broken-down, bum, bung, busted, cactused, crocked, dead

Opposite: in service

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Opposite: in service

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@misc{out_of_service_2026,
  title = {out-of-service},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/out-of-service},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}