Wiktionary
a. Not available for use. alt. Not available for use.
WordNet
adj. (of a ship) withdrawn from active service; "the ship was placed out of service after the war" [syn: retired]
Usage examples of "out of service".
In fact, at this time of night, only the people who are running the city will know that we are out of service.
Johnson's observation about the ignorance of officers, in the length that a musket will carry, my brother, Colonel Dalrymple, was present, and he thought that the doctor was either mistaken, by putting the question wrong, or that he had conversed on the subject with some person out of service.
They had been knocked out of service well before the hull breach that had stopped the enemy ship.
The inner squares of the city were practically deserted save for bodies and wrecked cars, but the streets leading out of town were boiling with people, mostly on foot, for the trams where out of service.
The metal kitchenware had gone when the kitchen went out of service, but there was sufficient pottery remaining to feed a packed common room, let alone the six of them.
We'll take your vessel out of service for the duration of the war.
Even with the planes he'd brought in the night before Jefferson was short of Intruders, and he could understand the chief's reluctance to order another one taken out of service.