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DEACCESSION
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they deaccession ... he / she / it deaccessions
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
Example:
The museum deaccessioned several important works of this painter
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
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
