decommission
verb
de·com·mis·sion
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decommissioned;
decommissioning;
decommissions
Definition of decommission
: to remove (something, such as a ship or a nuclear power plant) from service
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
Michigan’s Indian tribes are preparing to sue to decommission an oil pipeline. — cleveland.com, "Ethanol stays king in Iowa as Texan presidential hopefuls lack a plan: The Flyover," 27 Aug. 2019 Baltimore City, which owns the reservoir straddling Carroll and Baltimore counties, has decided to decommission at least seven roads in Liberty Reservoir. — Jon Kelvey, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, "Liberty Reservoir fire roads won’t be maintained or open to public after Baltimore decision; residents object," 16 Aug. 2019 Hanging above the bar is an impressive array of grenades, bayonets, and vintage firearms that may or may not have been decommissioned. — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, "American Dive Bars," 22 Aug. 2019 The Montford camp was decommissioned in 1949 when President Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, "One of nation’s first black Marines to be honored in Oceanside," 18 Aug. 2019 However, that all stopped when the vessel was decommissioned in 1997—a date often cited as one of the only times the Queen has shed a tear in public. — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, "How Queen Elizabeth and the Royal Family Really Travel," 10 Aug. 2019 No one was injured, but the $212 million ship had to be decommissioned, and the U.S. ambassador was forced to apologize for the damage to the World Heritage site. — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, "Iran Has Hundreds of Naval Mines. U.S. Navy Minesweepers Find Old Dishwashers and Car Parts.," 9 Aug. 2019 But the Michigan attorney general’s office said the development reinforces the need to decommission Enbridge’s Line 5, which carries 23 million gallons of oil and natural gas liquids daily between Superior, Wisconsin, and Sarnia, Ontario. — chicagotribune.com, "Erosion has created a gap beneath a Great Lakes oil pipeline, oil transport company Enbridge says," 8 Aug. 2019 Public Service Company bought the lake to cool its atomic power project in Platteville, which was later decommissioned; other pieces went to family members, leaving a near-section-sized parcel near Hwy 66 and Colorado Boulevard. — Mark Samuelson, The Denver Post, "As a 546-acre farm near Firestone heads for auction block, it has residential possibilities, but water rights may be the real prize," 1 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'decommission.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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decommission
verb
English Language Learners Definition of decommission
: to officially stop using (a ship, weapon, dam, etc.) : to remove (something) from service
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