"unserviceable" meaning in English

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          "text": "1591, Walter Raleigh, A Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of Açores, this last Sommer betwixt the Reuenge, one of her Maiesties Shippes, and an Armada of the King of Spaine, London: William Ponsonbie; Riverside Press, 1902,\nAnd that which was most to our disaduantage, the one halfe part of the men of euerie shippe sicke, and vtterly vnseruiceable."
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        {
          "ref": "1696, John Selden, “Humility”, in Table-Talk, London: Jacob Tonson, page 68",
          "text": "[…] if a Man hath too mean an Opinion of himself, ’twill render him unserviceable both to God and Man.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 22, “Network News: Battery-powered shunter ready to begin testing”, in Rail, page 20",
          "text": "The '08' was acquired from Gemini Rail Services. It was heavily corroded, unserviceable due to a damaged crankshaft, and had been used to donate spares to other '08s'.",
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        "Unusable; of no use."
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          "ref": "1937 January 25, “Hornlessness”, in Time",
          "text": "During 1936, revealed Pravda, the Gorky plant set itself the task of turning out 12,000 cars. The actual output was 2,500. In one day 24 of 47 cars turned out were tagged “unserviceable.”",
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        {
          "ref": "1957, Neville Shute, chapter 3, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow & Co.",
          "text": "[The war] just didn’t stop, till all the bombs were gone and all the aircraft were unserviceable.",
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        "Of machinery, etc.: not working."
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        "Impractical."
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          "text": "1591, Walter Raleigh, A Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of Açores, this last Sommer betwixt the Reuenge, one of her Maiesties Shippes, and an Armada of the King of Spaine, London: William Ponsonbie; Riverside Press, 1902,\nAnd that which was most to our disaduantage, the one halfe part of the men of euerie shippe sicke, and vtterly vnseruiceable."
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          "ref": "1696, John Selden, “Humility”, in Table-Talk, London: Jacob Tonson, page 68",
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          "ref": "2020 April 22, “Network News: Battery-powered shunter ready to begin testing”, in Rail, page 20",
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