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    decommission
    /ˌdiːkəˈmɪʃn/

    verb

    • 1. withdraw (something, especially weapons or military equipment) from service: "a decision to decommission the ice patrol ship HMS Endurance"

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  2. Decommissioned is the past tense and past participle of decommission, which means to take equipment or weapons out of use. Learn how to use this word in different contexts with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and the Hansard archive.

    • English (US)

      DECOMMISSIONED meaning: 1. past simple and past participle...

    • Decommission

      DECOMMISSION definition: 1. to take equipment or weapons out...

    • Decompose

      DECOMPOSE definition: 1. to decay, or to cause something to...

  3. Examples of decommission in a Sentence. Several military bases are scheduled to be decommissioned. The government is decommissioning the nuclear power plant. Recent Examples on the Web The building was decommissioned in the early 1990s when sailors started using GPS to navigate around dangerous obstacles.

  4. Find 54 words that mean the same or the opposite of decommissioned, such as deactivated, inactive, or operating. Learn the definition of decommissioned and see examples of its usage.

  5. Decommissioned means to take equipment or weapons out of use. Learn how to use this verb in different contexts and see related words and phrases.

  6. Decommission means to remove or retire something from active service, such as a ship, airplane, or nuclear plant. Learn the origin, usage, and synonyms of this verb from Dictionary.com.

  7. Learn the meaning and usage of the verb decommission, which means to take something out of service or to dismantle it. Find out how to use decommission in different contexts, such as nuclear power plants, ships, weapons and oil wells.

  8. Decommissioned means to take out of active service or use, such as a ship, a weapon, or a nuclear reactor. Learn the pronunciation, synonyms, and translations of decommissioned from various sources.