Formal, professional, and technical terminology for something that is not working includes inoperative, dysfunctional, non-functional, impaired, defective, unserviceable, compromised, and malfunctioning. In engineering reports, architectural logs, and corporate IT tickets, professionals rely on these objective descriptors rather than casual expressions to ensure that documentation clearly communicates the exact state of damaged hardware or crashed software systems without ambiguity.
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