out of commission
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- Not operational; not functioning properly.
- Synonyms: broken, out of order, out of service, Thesaurus:out of order
- 1906, Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Man in Lower Ten, ch. 19,
- One pair of handcuffs will put both hands out of commission.
- 2008, Scot Lehigh, "Making (no) sense of police details," Boston Globe, 2 Jul.,
- A traffic light was out of commission, leaving motorists to sort their way through an occasionally busy intersection.
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