Definition of non-operational in English:
non-operational
adjectivenɒnɒpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l
1Not working or in use.
non-operational equipment
Example sentencesExamples
- The NHS holds around 1,000 non-operational sites currently worth £912m.
- The baseboards were lined with the couple of thousand LPs Alvin had collected, though his snazzy vertical turntable was nonoperational for some obscure hightech reason.
- Designated caretakers are employees from noncritical and nonoperational departments during the storm.
- Our hands have been tied while the studio has been nonoperational.
- For a while in the early days, just after release, the billing system was more or less nonoperational and the main game executable was a crash-prone mess.
- In addition, 5 other reactors have been nonoperational for at least 2 consecutive calendar years.
- Before US occupation, the base was essentially nonoperational.
- A system on the aircraft was nonoperational and the aircraft could not be used for the next sortie.
- I have been amazed, with using this unit, just how many cameras are actually non-operational at certain times and it has saved me many times from being clocked while just over the speed limit.
- At the Block M bus terminal, twin ticket booths were already installed in the underground hall, but were vacant and nonoperational.
- The capital receipts will come from the sale of non-operational property such as three golf courses in Leeds, assorted agricultural land, shops and houses across the district.
- ‘Power is vital, especially for health services, but most power stations are non-operational due to damage, or a lack of staff or fuel,’ the bank said.
- Head Philip Davies said: ‘Items removed included file servers, so the whole of the suite is non-operational.’
- As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
- 1.1 Not engaged in or involving active duties.
his current non-operational job as a fire prevention office
Example sentencesExamples
- This practice is extant for non-operational periods only.
- Many officers will become midcareer specialists by joining the nonoperational career fields after extensive experience in the operational career field's basic branches.
- They have been put on non-operational firearms duties.
- Many who become generals have only one nonoperational assignment, which allows little time for reflection and assimilation of skills.
- It's hard to get top-grade civilian people in key positions because of the rotation of military officers in senior positions, and yet militaryofficers must rotate in and out of nonoperational assignments.
- The new range of cost-cutting measures was decided at a meeting of the group's executive committee in Mr Gilbertson's home town of Johannesburg and will cost 100 jobs on top of the 1300 non-operational positions shed since the merger.
- The two officers remained at work, on non-operational duties, as the Crown Prosecution Service considers whether to bring any criminal charges against them.
- Up to 3,000 non-operational managers will lose their jobs although it remained unclear last night where the majority of losses will be.
- For many people it will be their only non-operational overseas experience.
- Drawing from these definitions, noncore logistics functions can be described as nonoperational activities that are not required to be undertaken by military personnel.
- Most of these duty officers had retreated to non-operational areas early in their careers because they couldn't stomach the risks of front-line policing.