Wiktionary
decommissioning
vb. (present participle of decommission English)
Wikipedia
Decommissioning
Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from an active status. Specific instances include:
Infrastructure:- Decommissioned highway
- Greenfield status of former industrial sites
- Nuclear decommissioning of power plants
- Decommissioning in Northern Ireland of paramilitary weapons
- Decommissioning pennant, where a navy ship wears an extremely long commissioning pennant at the end of its commission overseas
- Demobilization of soldiers
- Disarmament
- Ship-Submarine Recycling Program for U.S. nuclear vessels
- Ship decommissioning
Usage examples of "decommissioning".
They tracked him down finally aboard a wooden-hulled minesweeper in Dry Dock Four that was being prepared for decommissioning and layup.
That was the reason for decommissioning the weapons and replacing their stealth armor with bright civilian casings.