nonuse

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Eventually, the resident next door said the easement was terminated over nonuse.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024

A noticeable difference in performance between the phases would suggest nonuse of the affected arm.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

A: About 15 years ago PCs began to offer a “sleep mode” that would kick in after a specified period of nonuse.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

Why disregard the possibility that, once enough people opt in to use it, the collective adoption of this technology might dramatically transform the social environment, making nonuse difficult or impossible?

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2011

In the first instance, 146 there is not only interest on unemployed capital, but the capital is actually deteriorating through nonuse.

From The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Hunt, Thomas Forsyth