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decommissioning

decommissioning is the present participle and gerund of decommission.

Meaning of decommission

Verb

decommission (third-person singular simple present decommissions, present participle decommissioning, simple past and past participle decommissioned)

  1. To take out of service or to render unusable.
    • They decommissioned the ship after the accident.
  2. (transitive) To remove or revoke the commission of.
    • After his arrest, the officer was decommissioned from the police force.
  3. (transitive) To remove or revoke the formal designation of.
    • The state highway was decommissioned and reverted to local control.

Noun

decommissioning (plural decommissionings)

  1. The act by which something is decommissioned.

Forms of decommissioning

pluraldecommissionings

Questions about decommissioning

What does decommissioning mean?
Decommissioning means the act by which something is decommissioned.
What is decommissioning the present participle and gerund of?
Decommissioning is the present participle and gerund of decommission.
What part of speech is decommissioning?
Decommissioning is a noun.
What is the plural of decommissioning?
The plural of decommissioning is decommissionings.

Words near decommissioning in the dictionary

  1. decommission
  2. decommissionable
  3. decommissioned
  4. decommissioner
  5. decommissioners
  6. decommissioning
  7. decommissionings
  8. decommissions
  9. decommit
  10. decommitment
  11. decommitments

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