The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recommission \Re`com*mis"sion\ (r?`k?m*m?sh?n), v. t. To commission again; to give a new commission to.
Officers whose time of service had expired were to be
recommissioned.
--Marshall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1781, in reference to British Navy ships, from re- "back, again" + commission (v.). Related: Recommissioned; recommissioning.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To give a new commission or to validate an existing commission. 2 To put back in service (undoing decommissioning).
Usage examples of "recommission".
Drantaax is dead we will be forced to recommission it elsewhere, which will of course mean a delay.
Sir Lowell was planning to remain there for at least a week, hopefully to recommission and strengthen the guard left on the city ruins.
If we do it right nobody will notice the stuff is missing until they recommission the plane.
Mr President, and usually when sailing French ships taken as prizes of war and recommissioned into the British Navy.
Seminole my father is sleeping on a gun that has just been recommissioned, because the riots have begun .
Landed, decontaminated, the ships would ultimately be refitted and recommissioned into the Alliance force.
Nashih as a prize of war and recommissioned as a scoutship or somesuch.
Others were fifty-year-old crimson-red diplomatic cruisers, and warships recently recommissioned from mothballed fleets.
After his dismissal, and upon his assurance that the oath failed to reach him and his readiness to execute it, he was recommissioned to his original position on the 4th September following.
In the eighties, we recommissioned all four of our Iowa class battleships and deployed them around the world.
For a few years, the old rank of commodore was recommissioned, and commodore was essentially a one star admiral.
The treatment temporarily knocks out the painful, archaic recordings, allowing the recommissioning of the Adult.
Others were fifty-year-old crimson-red diplomatic cruisers, and warships recently recommissioned from mothballed fleets.
The treatment temporarily knocks out the painful, archaic recordings, allowing the recommissioning of the Adult.
It was Cairns, the first lieutenant, who like most of the others had been aboard since the ship had recommissioned in 1775 after being laid up in Bristol where she had originally been built.