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Unserviceable

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Unusable; of no use. not-comparable

    "1591, Walter Raleigh, A Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of Açores, this last Sommer betwixt the Reuenge, one of her Maiesties Shippes, and an Armada of the King of Spaine, London: William Ponsonbie; Riverside Press, 1902, And that which was most to our disaduantage, the one halfe part of the men of euerie shippe sicke, and vtterly vnseruiceable."

  2. 2
    Of machinery, etc.: not working. not-comparable

    "During 1936, revealed Pravda, the Gorky plant set itself the task of turning out 12,000 cars. The actual output was 2,500. In one day 24 of 47 cars turned out were tagged “unserviceable.”"

  3. 3
    Impractical. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    not ready for service wordnet
  2. 2
    not capable of being used wordnet

Etymology

From un- + serviceable.

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