Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

recommission

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: recom-mis-sion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To give a new commission or to validate an existing commission.

Transitive verb

verb

To put back in service (undoing decommissioning).

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"They recommissioned the unused furnace, practically rebuilding it in the process."
"Hood explains: "It's never a case of just taking these units and dusting them down. Because they had been in storage, they had not undertaken their time-based overhaul, which had been due. They had also not undertaken their mileage-based overhaul, which was also due for all the sets. That caused a bit of a headache when it came to recommissioning them.""

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English commission English recommission From re- + commission.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

recommissions (present, singular) recommissioning (participle, present) recommissioned (participle, past) recommissioned (past)

Rhymes With

position addition commission mission condition edition permission tradition transition exhibition planning permission transmission

Questions

What does recommission mean?: To give a new commission or to validate an existing commission.
Where does recommission come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English commission English recommission From re- + commission.

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