inactivity

inactive | American Dictionary

inactive
adjective
us/ɪnˈæk·tɪv/
doing nothing:
Knee surgery will keep him physically inactive for two months.
About half of the club members are inactive.

inactivity

noun[ U ]us/ˌɪn·ækˈtɪv·ɪ·t̬i/
The journey was long, and he found the inactivity boring.

inactive | Business English

inactive
adjective
uk /ɪnˈæktɪv/us
doing nothing or not doing what you have usually done:
an inactive member of an advisory board
Voters who have not participated in an election in three years are considered inactive.
People are classed as economically inactive if they are not seeking work or not available to work.
STOCK MARKET
not buying or selling very much:
Many Tokyo investors were inactive ahead of Friday's special quotation.
not operating or being used:
The company is inactive rather than insolvent.
an inactive company/entity
an inactive quarry/oil rig

Examples of inactive

inactive
The distance to the desired professional role perception was greater for aged, less educated and economically inactive pharmacy users.
Unlike at present, a parent or relative would receive credit for their activity rather than benefit for their inactive status.
Virtually all emergence occurred during scotophase, and adults were inactive during photophase unless disturbed.
If the interest rate at the discount window is high enough, however, liquidation is less costly and the discount window will be inactive.
If the organized markets are inactive, no bills would be issued, and so the strategy is irrelevant.
In other words, the more inactive of the two protagonists in the relationship is encoded as subject while the more active protagonist is not represented.
The status for an event star ts out :alive, but will switch to :inactive should the event be "undone" at some later stage.
Some rigid links are replaced by kinematics pairs, which, generally, keep inactive or idle when the manufacturing errors are negligible.
Most sectors lacked leadership, information and mobilisation capacity, and remained inactive in the port reform debate.
Trials of different group size are interleaved and inactive robots are automatically positioned at recharging stations.
The two groups are distinguished as socially 'active ' and ' inactive'.
While active cells move around, grow and multiply, inactive ones do nothing at all.
Comparative modelling and analysis of amino acid substitutions suggests that the family of pregnancy-associated glycoproteins includes both active and inactive aspartic proteinases.
And instead of cells that were either dead or alive, the neurons were either active or inactive.
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