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out of commission
phrase as in not working
Example Sentences
The Palisades fire put three campuses out of commission in the nation’s second-largest school system.
“This one’s gone, that one’s gone and this little guy’s almost out of commission. You see where it’s coming apart right here?”
I thought I was gonna be out of commission for 18 months or two years — that’s what I was told.
He’d heard about the bus shortage — roughly three-quarters of the department’s inmate transport buses were out of commission — and wondered if that kind of large-scale evacuation was really possible.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered an investigation into the loss of pressure and the lack of water available from a reservoir in Pacific Palisades that was out of commission for repairs.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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