decommission
/diːkəˈmɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To take out of service or to render unusable.
Example Sentences
- "They decommissioned the ship after the accident."
- "The Army decommissioned the Sherman tank by filling the turret with cement."
- "By July 1988, when NRC [the Nuclear Regulatory Commission] began requiring licensees to provide specific assurances that funds would be available to decommission their plants, 114 plants were already licensed to operate. At that time, NRC required licensees to provide "reasonable assurance" that sufficient funds would be available to decommission their nuclear power plants."
- "The failure of loyalist paramilitaries to decommission weapons was, therefore, less about ideology than about more practical considerations. There were several other reasons why loyalist paramilitaries were not prepared to decommission weapons. Since republicans had not stated that the war was over loyalists saw no reason to unilaterally decommission."
- "There are a large number of nuclear and radiological facilities, including legacy sites worldwide, that have been decommissioned successfully, are either currently in an active decommissioning phrase, or will require decommissioning in the near future[…]."
- "Organizations may be forced by vendors to decommission systems because product releases are not supported any more, or the organizations may opt for expensive maintenance contracts for products, which are no longer officially supported by the vendor. […] [O]nce an organization is in a lock-in situation, the organization may be forced to decommission due to the product release strategy of the suppliers."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English commission English decommission From de- + commission.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /diːkəˈmɪʃən/