decommission
About 0.02 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To take out of service or to render unusable.
They decommissioned the ship after the accident.
- verb To remove or revoke the commission of.
After his arrest, the officer was decommissioned from the police force.
- verb To remove or revoke the formal designation of.
The state highway was decommissioned and reverted to local control.
Similar words
deactivation remove disband disbandment dislodge disbanding deactivate shut declassification withdrawing
Often followed by
the its a their and of them all it
Word family
decommissioned decommissioning decommissions
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