largely defunct
Frequency: 5.84.1 per million words
Indicates that something is mostly or for the most part defunct.
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Examples (10)
- The mainframe system is now largely defunct, with only a few legacy applications still running on it.
- The local model railway club is largely defunct, meeting only once a year.
- The typewriter manufacturing industry became largely defunct with the advent of personal computers.
- That old bylaw is largely defunct and hasn't been enforced for decades.
- The custom of sending handwritten letters is largely defunct in the age of email.
- After the scandal, the political organization became largely defunct.
- Although technically still registered, the company is largely defunct and has no active operations.
- The old canal system for transporting goods is now largely defunct.
- Phrenology is a largely defunct theory that attempted to determine personality from skull shape.
- The print edition of the journal is largely defunct, having moved almost entirely online.