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Definition of "irrecoverable" [ir•re•cov•er•a•ble]

  • Impossible to recover; irreparable: irrecoverable losses. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "irrecoverable" in a sentence
  • "*** Travel TUI Travel, Europe's largest travel operator, said Chief Financial Officer Paul Bowtell had resigned after an accounting error forced the company to write off another £ 88 million ($139.4 million) in "irrecoverable balances" and restate its earnings for fiscal 2009."
  • "Another important form of classification emerged in 1896 with Emil Kraepelins model of dementia praecox, first used by Morel in 1860 and described as irrecoverable cortical brain disease producing a particular kind of mental enfeeblement in the young."
  • "ANN REALTIME UPDATE 03.19.09 1710 EDT: Cessna spokesman Doug Oliver has confirmed to ANN that a BRS parachute deployment was used today to recover the sole-remaining flying Cessna SkyCatcher after an as-yet undefined flight test criteria resulted in an "irrecoverable" flight condition."