The phrase "a defunct system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a system that is no longer in operation or has become obsolete.
Example: "The company had to replace a defunct system that was causing frequent errors in data processing."
Alternatives: "an obsolete system" or "a nonfunctional system".
Above all, is there any reason to care passionately either way, or should we sit back, espouse Houellebecq's preferred compound of spite and phlegm, and welcome these eventualities as the merited deserts of a defunct system?
Belief that does not create more trust and support could suggest a defunct God or, much more to the point, a defunct believer and a defunct system.
Moreover poor management, planning and lack of control make the public sector a defunct system.
Liebermann was a last chance for a defunct organisation.
But I don't think it will be by joining an already antiquated and defunct system".
Perhaps we're now witnessing a new order – offering a more diverse range of political ideas and parties – colliding with a defunct electoral system.
Ordinary Palestinians resent what they see as a "defunct political system, no parliamentary elections since January, 2006, and police brutality, especially against Hamas supporters".
He brought up Trailblazer, but found that the investigators weren't interested in the details of a defunct computer system, or in cost overruns, or in the constitutional conflicts posed by warrantless surveillance.
Jalabandhus restoring a defunct water system in South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, India.
Indeed, Du Châtelet's commitment to developing a natural philosophy (rather than writing simply about physics) required that she find an appropriate metaphysics to ground Newtonain physics, thus presenting a unified system to replace the (in her and others' view) defunct system of Descartes.
