Usually means: No longer functioning or effective.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word inoperative:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. inoperative: Merriam-Webster
  2. inoperative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inoperative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inoperative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inoperative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inoperative, inoperative: Wordnik
  7. inoperative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inoperative: Wiktionary
  9. inoperative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inoperative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inoperative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inoperative: Dictionary.com
  13. Inoperative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. inoperative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. inoperative: Rhymezone
  16. Inoperative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. inoperative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. inoperative: FreeDictionary.org
  19. inoperative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. inoperative: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. inoperative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. inoperative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. inoperative: Legal dictionary

(Note: See inoperativeness as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Not working or functioning; either idle or broken.
▸ adjective:  (law) No longer legally binding.

Similar:
defunct, dead, down, inactive, unoperative, broken, inoperable, out-of-service, unserviceable, broken down, more...

Phrases:
make inoperative, inoperative utterance, more...

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Similar:
defunct, dead, down, inactive, unoperative, broken, inoperable, out-of-service, unserviceable, broken down, more...

Phrases:
make inoperative, inoperative utterance, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     white,     silver,     charcoal, more...



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