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decommission

[dee-kuh-mish-uhn] / ˌdi kəˈmɪʃ ən /
VERB
withdraw from active service
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Starmer's gifted firearm has been left with British officials in Turkey, and they are expected to decommission it so it can no longer fire live rounds.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

JPMorgan energy expert Michael Cembalest estimates that Germany’s decision to decommission its nuclear power plants in the wake of the Fukushima disaster may have raised electricity prices by 25%.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

Cembalest highlights research undertaken by JPMorgan that scrutinized the costs incurred to the German economy stemming from its decision to decommission its nuclear power plants after the Fukushima incident.

From MarketWatch Mar. 9, 2026

One example: his threat to decommission a spacecraft that transports National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts to the International Space Station.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

There, the conservation law swiftly came into conflict with a massive project to decommission thousands of septic tanks and replace them with a sewer system.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2025

Florida-based Holtec makes equipment to store nuclear waste and decommissions existing nuclear plants.

From Barron's Feb. 9, 2026

"The volume of material is enormous compared to past decommissions."

From Scientific American Apr. 29, 2011

After Route 66 was decommissioned as a highway in 1985, about 85% of the old route remained in use, often as small-town thoroughfares, country highways and frontage roads alongside Interstate 40.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

Spiers now thinks the show should be decommissioned, as in her view, its model is "completely flawed".

From BBC May 27, 2026

Navy decommissioned its last battleship in 1992, after the military recognized that battleships had become sitting ducks, vulnerable to modern military munitions that could pick off the vessel from the sky.

From Salon May 8, 2026

They bought a decommissioned school bus, painted it bright red, and outfitted it with models of the proposed town, and Farahzad and Nye drove it around the country.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

A regular, nondescript conventional train that has probably been decommissioned, since California rail has gone high-speed.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

He became one of the UUP's biggest critics of the deal over issues like the IRA's decommissioning of weapons, warning his then leader David Trimble against supporting it.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Continental Development executive Bob Tarnofsky said the team learned about “previously undisclosed higher decommissioning and demolition costs, a more complicated approval process, and greater environmental risk mitigation” after submitting the proposal.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

A $2.4 billion escrow fund required by the Federal Communications Commission will stay in place to handle network decommissioning claims.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Holtec, with an annual income exceeding $500 million, is expanding from nuclear waste storage and plant decommissioning to building and operating its own nuclear plants.

From Barron's Feb. 9, 2026

Before decommissioning in November 1944, the Sea Cloud served on ocean weather stations off the coasts of Greenland, Newfoundland, and France.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.



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