The phrase "as a defunct" is not correct and usable in written English without additional context.
It may be used when referring to something that is no longer in operation or functioning, but it typically requires a noun to follow it for clarity.
Example: "The company was once a leader in the industry, but now it exists only as a defunct entity."
Alternatives: "as an obsolete" or "as a nonfunctioning".
Ordinary Palestinians resent what they see as a "defunct political system, no parliamentary elections since January, 2006, and police brutality, especially against Hamas supporters".
From an aging M to the limited role of the Bond Girl and the characterization of Miss Moneypenny as a defunct field agent, Skyfall develops the legacy of Bond at the expense of women.
None of these are as exciting as a defunct volcano in the Painted Desert or Turrell's other sky-space works, where you linger in a chamber staring up at the heavens.
Alive and cheap Activision is still in business, contrary to our description of it as a "defunct computer game maker" ("From freeware to profitware," Aug. 24, p. 93).
"It should not come as a surprise that, even as a defunct band, they seem to become bigger and bigger.
Another reason they have not attracted attention is that the MEK can easily be dismissed as a defunct fighting force; the average age of its fighters is sixty years old and many of them are ailing with mental and physical disease after years of punishing training in the Iraqi deserts.
As I whizzed past a defunct hamburger stand, I mentally logged in the whimsical curve of its roofline, the harsh light glinting off shattered glass panels, and an angry dash of red graffiti on the weathered plywood over the once busy service window.
The shuttle is now busy building the international space station, however, and it may be tough to reserve one to reclaim a defunct satellite as well as find the $50 million needed for such a mission.
We will win in China". As Oberhelman spoke, a defunct video-distribution company in Hong Kong was finalizing a reverse merger that would come to haunt Caterpillar.
At the ceremony, Charles Curtis, who first proposed the Big Chair promotion, spoke about how his creation had survived the 1968 riots and said that the new version "will stay there for 100 years". Today, it stands not as a symbol of a defunct furniture store, but as a neighborhood rallying point and monument to Anacostia's history.
Mr. Russell, who grew up in Nashville and graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School there, abandoned a brief legal career and joined The Banner, now defunct, as a reporter in 1929.
