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UK
/ɪɹɪkˈʌvəɹəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
- incapable of being recovered or regained
How To Use irrecoverable In A Sentence
- Hammond will say he will not allow the MoD to remove critical skills and capabilities that are irrecoverable … we will not carelessly throw away core competencies that may be essential to our defence in the future. Defence secretary to warn armed forces of more pain in coming years
- ANN REALTIME UPDATE 03.19.09 1710 EDT: Cessna spokesman Doug Oliver has confirmed to ANN that a BRS parachute deployment was used today to recover the sole-remaining flying Cessna SkyCatcher after an as-yet undefined flight test criteria resulted in an "irrecoverable" flight condition. Aero-News Network
- They have gone so far down that we are getting to the point of irrecoverable collapse.
- No government has considered the issue of charities' irrecoverable VAT more seriously than this one.
- The insurance premium is wholly irrecoverable.
- For the ecological system which is already fragile, as they have found, any mindless destruction may be enough to do an irrecoverable damage to it.
- He seems to be working in a coal mine in his breaks and several shirts may be irrecoverable.
- In India, owing to the time lag involved in the recovery, banks tend to hold on to advances considered irrecoverable in their books.
- But he might simply shatter, break into irrecoverable pieces.
- Causation, even established, did not entitle him to recover damages in respect of an irrecoverable loss.