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DEACCESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deaccession mean? 

DEACCESSION (verb)
  The verb DEACCESSION has 1 sense:

1. sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art worksplay

  Familiarity information: DEACCESSION used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DEACCESSION (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they deaccession  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it deaccessions  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: deaccessioned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: deaccessioned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: deaccessioning  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The museum deaccessioned several important works of this painter

Hypernyms (to "deaccession" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


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