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DECOMMISSION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does decommission mean?
• DECOMMISSION (verb)
The verb DECOMMISSION has 1 sense:
1. withdraw from active service
Familiarity information: DECOMMISSION used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they decommission ... he / she / it decommissions
Past simple: decommissioned
Past participle: decommissioned
-ing form: decommissioning
... he / she / it decommissions Past simple: decommissioned
Past participle: decommissioned
-ing form: decommissioning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Withdraw from active service
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
The warship was decommissioned in 1998
Hypernyms (to "decommission" is one way to...):
call back; call in; recall; withdraw (cause to be returned)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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