Usually means: No longer existing or functioning.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word defunct:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. defunct: Merriam-Webster
  2. defunct: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defunct: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defunct: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defunct: Vocabulary.com
  6. Defunct, defunct: Wordnik
  7. defunct: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defunct: Wiktionary
  9. defunct: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defunct: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. defunct: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Defunct, defunct, the defunct: Dictionary.com
  13. defunct: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. defunct: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Defunct (video game), Defunct: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Defunct: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. defunct: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. defunct: Rhymezone
  19. defunct: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. defunct: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. defunct: FreeDictionary.org
  22. defunct: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. defunct: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. defunct: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Defunct: Investopedia
  5. defunct, the defunct: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defunct: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
adjective:  (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
adjective:  (computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
adjective:  (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
adjective:  (now rare) Deceased, dead.
verb:  To make defunct.
noun:  The dead person (referred to).

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