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deaccessions

deaccessions is the plural of deaccession.

deaccessions is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deaccession.

Meaning of deaccession

Noun

deaccession (countable and uncountable, plural deaccessions)

  1. The disposal of objects in this way, or the disposed object itself.
    • At the last board meeting, trustee Edmund Carpenter moved to clamp down on private trades. All deaccessions, he proposed, should go to other museums, or failing that, to public sale with full disclosure of records and documentation. The motion failed to get a second and there the matter died.1974 March 31, Leah Gordon, “Trading a Museum's Treasure—a Very Hazardous Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Antonyms:
    accession

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Questions about deaccessions

What is deaccessions the plural of?
Deaccessions is the plural of deaccession.

Words near deaccessions in the dictionary

  1. deaccesses
  2. deaccessing
  3. deaccession
  4. deaccessioned
  5. deaccessioning
  6. deaccessions
  7. deacclimate
  8. deacclimated
  9. deacclimatization
  10. deaccredit
  11. deaccreditation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deaccessions (page history and authors); deaccession (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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