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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 works
Familiarity information: DEACCESSION used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: deaccessioned
Past participle: deaccessioned
-ing form: deaccessioning
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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