廃部

Reading

Kana: はいぶ

Romaji: haibu

Definition

noun

1

abolished club; club that has had its status repealed

Kanji

廃

Readings: ハイ、 すた.れる、 すた.る

Meanings: abolish, obsolete, cessation, discarding, abandon

部

Readings: ブ、 -べ

Meanings: section, bureau, dept, class, copy, part, portion, counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine

Example Sentence

バドミントン部(ぶ)はまともな部員(ぶいん)が極端(きょくたん)に少(すく)ないため、ほとんど廃部(はいぶ)ないし休部(きゅうぶ)状態(じょうたい)だった。

➥There were so few proper members in the badminton club that it was half-way between dead and 'on break'.