decommission
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English commission
English decommission
From de- + commission.
Inflected forms:
form: decommissions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decommissioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decommissioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decommissioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take out of service or to render unusable.
pos: verb
examples: They decommissioned the ship after the accident.
The Army decommissioned the Sherman tank by filling the turret with cement.
By July 1988, when NRC [the Nuclear Regulatory Commission] began requiring licensees to provide specific assurances that funds would be available to decommission their plants, 114 plants were already licensed to operate. At that time, NRC required licensees to provide "reasonable assurance" that sufficient funds would be available to decommission their nuclear power plants.
The failure of loyalist paramilitaries to decommission weapons was, therefore, less about ideology than about more practical considerations. There were several other reasons why loyalist paramilitaries were not prepared to decommission weapons. Since republicans had not stated that the war was over loyalists saw no reason to unilaterally decommission.
There are a large number of nuclear and radiological facilities, including legacy sites worldwide, that have been decommissioned successfully, are either currently in an active decommissioning phrase, or will require decommissioning in the near future[…].
Organizations may be forced by vendors to decommission systems because product releases are not supported any more, or the organizations may opt for expensive maintenance contracts for products, which are no longer officially supported by the vendor. […] [O]nce an organization is in a lock-in situation, the organization may be forced to decommission due to the product release strategy of the suppliers.
The first project reaps a positive cash flow of $25,000 in the first four years and then decommissions the investment with a positive cash flow of $470,000 in the fifth year. The second project offers twice as much positive cash flow in the first four years. The third project does not reap any annual cash flows, but decommissions the investment in the second year for $490,000.
Pitlochry signal box (which previously controlled the passing loop through the station) was also decommissioned at this time and now awaits a future use, […]
gloss: To remove or revoke the commission of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After his arrest, the officer was decommissioned from the police force.
New Other than Regular Army (OTRA) officers who fail their Officer Basic Course at a training installation for academic reasons, because of misconduct, or for demonstrated leadership deficiencies face the prospect of involuntary release from active duty. In many cases, these officers will be decommissioned, resulting in the termination of the officer's military status and the revocation of his or her commission. The process of decommissioning an officer is normally triggered by a Review of Student Status initiated by the school the new officer is attending.
The family claimed proudly that he [James Clay, Jr.] was the last Confederate officer decommissioned at the end of the war.
gloss: To remove or revoke the formal designation of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The state highway was decommissioned and reverted to local control.
R-23 (Submarine No. 100) was laid down 25 April 1917 by the Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, Conn.; launched 5 November 1918; sponsored by Miss Ruth Jane Harris; and commissioned 23 October 1919, Lt. David R. Lee in command. […] R-23 was decommissioned 24 April 1925 and was berthed at League Island until struck from the Navy list 9 May 1930 and sold for scrap in July of the same year.
Proposal is to decommission 0.75 miles of this route that exists on the ground; this portion of the road does not access important features, dispersed sites, or firewood; […]
Antonyms: commission
Derived words: decommissionable
decommissioner
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