DECOMMISSION

decommission

(verb) withdraw from active service; “The warship was decommissioned in 1998”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

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

To take out of service or to render unusable.

To remove or revoke a commission.

To remove or revoke a formal designation.

Antonyms

• commission

Anagrams

• commissioned

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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