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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope