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re-commission

re-commission is the alternative form of recommission.

Meaning of recommission

Verb

recommission (third-person singular simple present recommissions, present participle recommissioning, simple past and past participle recommissioned)

  1. (transitive) To give a new commission or to validate an existing commission.
  2. (transitive) To put back in service (undoing decommissioning).
    • They recommissioned the unused furnace, practically rebuilding it in the process.

Forms of re-commission

third-person singular presentre-commissions
present participlere-commissioning
past participlere-commissioned
pastre-commissioned

Questions about re-commission

What is re-commission the alternative form of?
Re-commission is the alternative form of recommission.

Words near re-commission in the dictionary

  1. re-collect
  2. re-combine
  3. re-combined
  4. re-combines
  5. re-combining
  6. re-commission
  7. re-commissioned
  8. re-commissioning
  9. re-commissions
  10. re-consider
  11. re-considered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-commission (page history and authors); recommission (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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