non-functioning
There are almost no functioning lights in the entire building.
We don't even have a functioning team at the moment.
The aim of the conglomerate is to come together as a functioning whole.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Machines - Functioning
action
actuator
deactivation
engaged
faultily
faulty
fire someone up
function as something/someone
light
operative
peg
play something up
power
power (something) up
refire
reset
road
self-driving
tick
working

Examples of functioning

functioning
And the variety produced is of a richness that seems to belie the smooth, unobtrusive functioning of the instrument.
The possible score range is 0-100, with higher scores representing better functioning.!
It is also unclear how attachment interacts with other significant influences within the family to shape early sociopersonality functioning.
Exactly how important abnormalities in personality functioning are in the aetiology and onset of late-life paranoid psychoses is unclear.
Another original connotation we want to preserve is that explaining system development and its functioning demands understanding these systems' sociotechnical nature.
In the patient groups receiving active drug therapy (velnacrine maleate), an improvement was observed in their cognitive functioning relative to the placebo group.
This strategy allows for increased precision in evaluating the level of functioning in the specific domain within a more comprehensive developmental framework.
It is difficult to know whether maltreatment causes problems in family functioning or vice versa.
Clearly, research efforts need to be directed towards assessing the development of more specific aspects of cognitive functioning, such as executive functions.
Participants evaluated the programme positively, although they did not consider that their memory functioning had improved as a result.
Approximately half had a functioning transplant, with the remainder receiving dialysis therapy.
Since the study involved retrospective thought, the respondents were required to have adequate cognitive capacity for daily social functioning.
It seems unlikely that serious problems in parental functioning during childhood would suddenly be resolved as the child enters adolescence.
Recall and recognition measures revealed no differences between maltreated and nonmaltreated children's semantic memory functioning for neutral stimuli.
In this magnum opus he used biological metaphors to analyse the functioning of a national economic system and elaborate a detailed typology of socio-economic phenomena.
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