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decommission

verb as in withdraw from active service

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Originally opened in 1728 as the Church of St John the Evangelist, the site was decommissioned as a church and became a concert venue in the 1960s following bomb damage during World War Two.

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Data seen by the inquiry shows the total cost to the taxpayer, including setting up and decommissioning, is now estimated at £358.5m.

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Though the federal government does oversee exploration and drilling beyond state waters, those platforms are rapidly aging and many have been decommissioned or are being shut down.

Currently there’s limited international co-operation in regulation of satellite constellations, and within the United States, oversight of different aspects of their lifecycles — from launch to orbit to decommissioning — is handled by separate agencies.

A decommissioned railroad car stood gleaming next to the main road.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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