Definition of Decommission

1. Verb. Withdraw from active service. "The warship was decommissioned in 1998"

Generic synonyms: Call Back, Call In, Recall, Withdraw

Definition of Decommission

1. Verb. To take out of service or to render unusable. ¹

2. Verb. To remove or revoke a commission. ¹

3. Verb. To remove or revoke a formal designation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Decommission

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decommission

decolourations
decoloured
decolouring
decolourisation
decolourisations
decolourise
decolourised
decolouriser
decolourisers
decolourization
decolourize
decolourizer
decolours
decomino
decominoes
decommission (current term)
decommissioned
decommissioning
decommissions
decommodified
decommodifies
decommodify
decommodifying
decommunization
decommunize
decommunized
decommunizes
decommunizing
decompactification
decompactifications

Literary usage of Decommission

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants: Policies, Strategies and Costs by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2003)
"Also. the total volume of work needed to decommission a water reactor. including cutting. demolition. grinding. waste conditioning. waste characterisation ..."

2. Air Traffic Control Modernization: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce edited by Slade Gorton (2000)
"Will the WAAS program schedule slippage result in the need to purchase replacements for navigation equipment that the agency had intended to decommission? ..."

3. Aging Nuclear Power Plants: Managing Plant Life and Decommissioning by Office of Technology Assessment, United States, Congress (1993)
"I NRC Financial Assurance Requirements NRC financial assurance rules are designed to ensure that sufficient funds are available to decommission nuclear ..."

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