Meaning of inoperative in English
(Definition of inoperative from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
inoperative | Business English
inoperative
adjective
formal uk
/ɪˈnɒpərətɪv/ us
Legislation to repeal inoperative provisions in the tax law was approved.
Examples of inoperative
inoperative
Participants aren't told that it's inoperative, however, and tend to be more honest.
From Ars Technica
Other issues like a disruptive passenger or an inoperative television screen might provide justification for reshuffling passengers on-board.
From Huffington Post
Among other hazards, they found extensive accumulations of coal and coal dust along conveyor belts, inadequately supported roofs, inadequate ventilation and inoperative emergency communication systems.
They indicated conditions such as overcrowding and inoperative smoke detectors.
From Washington Post
Guess away, but the development community seems all but inoperative.
From TIME
The launch codes are suddenly inoperative.
From Huffington Post
When she espies the two bodies on the road and applies her brakes, she discovers that they are suddenly inoperative.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
So we can agree that many of the ideas, in fact all the ideas of liberal education are totally inoperative in local situations.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
But they should not be simply imposed a priori; this is an excessively artificial, counterfactual, and inoperative way of conceiving them.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
This mild decrease in sensitivity is strong evidence for the involvement of the magnocellular system, because parvocellular cells are almost inoperative at these low contrast levels.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
This is not to say that reinforcement was inoperative, rather that potential reinforcers were not preselected and possible reinforcers were not explored on a posthoc basis.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
As indicated above, forward markets per se will be inoperative because under the laws on riba forward transactions may be carried out only in terms of spot market prices.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
As it now stands, it is limited in operation to the period of the war and becomes inoperative upon the formal proclamation of peace.
From Project Gutenberg
The strike was made inoperative for the time being by the lockout of the employers.
From Project Gutenberg
Constitutional provisions designed to obstruct amendment are not only an anomaly in popular government, but they are in the very nature of the case inoperative.
From Project Gutenberg
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Translations of inoperative
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