Associations to the word «Decommission»

Wiktionary

DECOMMISSION, verb. To take out of service or to render unusable.
DECOMMISSION, verb. To remove or revoke a commission.
DECOMMISSION, verb. To remove or revoke a formal designation.

Dictionary definition

DECOMMISSION, verb. Withdraw from active service; "The warship was decommissioned in 1998".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats