Definition of "disused" []

• No longer in use (adjective)

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• "Raytheon has developed a technology for safely detonating all the landmines in disused landmine fields -- they drop a shell containing many hundreds of steel arrows into the field, which sets off all the old mines:"
• "The Rajah is without authority, and even his name disused in the official instruments issued or taken by the manager."
• "If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal mines which are then filled up with town rubbish, and leave them to private enterprise on the well-tried principles of laissez faire to dig them up again … there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community and its capital wealth also would probably become a great deal greater than it actually is."