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DECOMMISSION
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they decommission ... he / she / it decommissions
Past simple: decommissioned
Past participle: decommissioned
-ing form: decommissioning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Withdraw from active service
Example:
The warship was decommissioned in 1998
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "decommission" is one way to...):
call back; call in; recall; withdraw (cause to be returned)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
