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decommission

[dee-kuh-mish-uhn] / ˌdi kəˈmɪʃ ən /
VERB
withdraw from active service
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In the summer of 2026, Trump seemingly began to waver on whether the Qatari plane would go to his library, or whether he might try to decommission a different presidential plane and transfer that one.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

It will also administer and implement a process to decommission and store heavy weapons, military production sites, depots of weapons, and tunnels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The roadmap lays out a process to decommission and store Hamas's heavy weapons, military production sites, weapons depots and tunnels, to be implemented by NCAG.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Brombil Reservoir Ltd warned that without public sector support or a partnership agreement, it could be forced to "decommission the reservoir".

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The committee is in the early stages of setting up a new police force that is meant to decommission Hamas’s weapons once the militant group agrees to hand them over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Florida-based Holtec makes equipment to store nuclear waste and decommissions existing nuclear plants.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

"The volume of material is enormous compared to past decommissions."

From Scientific American ● Apr. 29, 2011

The company has decommissioned the tank involved in the incident, it said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Instead, in stages linked to Israeli withdrawals, the weapons would be decommissioned and stored by precisely the people whom Hamas can intimidate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Earlier, a diplomatic source told AFP that the roadmap "offers a balanced and pragmatic path forward, with all weapons decommissioned and a phased transition of responsibilities" to the new authorities.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

The project is located on a decommissioned uranium-enrichment site on federal land in southern Ohio, and the campus would require 10 gigawatts of electricity.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

A regular, nondescript conventional train that has probably been decommissioned, since California rail has gone high-speed.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

For a time he specialised in nuclear work and decommissioning, designing robots for pulling material out of contaminated tanks.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

A roadmap agreed by Hamas on July 30 said that the decommissioning of weapons would be supervised by the International Stabilization Force, the nascent unit that aims to deploy to Gaza if the situation calms.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

He became one of the UUP's biggest critics of the deal over issues like the IRA's decommissioning of weapons, warning his then leader David Trimble against supporting it.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Continental Development executive Bob Tarnofsky said the team learned about “previously undisclosed higher decommissioning and demolition costs, a more complicated approval process, and greater environmental risk mitigation” after submitting the proposal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Before decommissioning in November 1944, the Sea Cloud served on ocean weather stations off the coasts of Greenland, Newfoundland, and France.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor


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