英和和英

前置詞句

out of service

1. Not available for use.

   Synonyms: out of commission, out of order; see also Thesaurus:out of order

   Antonyms: in service, in order, in working order

   This train is going out of service at the next station.

   The sign that said the elevator was "temporarily out of service" had been there for months.

関連する語

参考

• out of action

形容詞

out-of-service (not comparable)

1. Not working, not functioning, broken; currently unavailable.

   Synonyms: out of commission, out-of-order; see also Thesaurus:out of order

   • 2005 October 17, “Talk of the Town: Elevator Hack”, in The New Yorker:

     No one much likes it when something—an empty cab, an out-of-service subway train, summer—goes by without stopping.

使用する際の注意点

• Used especially for telephone numbers and methods of public transportation, such as elevators, buses, or taxis.
• The hyphenated spelling out-of-service is used when this adjective immediately precedes the noun it modifies; predicatively, the open form applies (out of service).

反意語

• in service