decommission
verb [T] /ˌdiː.kəˈmɪʃ.ən/Definition
› to take equipment or weapons out of use: The government has decided to decommission two battleships. It would cost $300 million to decommission the nuclear installation.Providing weapons or taking weapons away
(Definition of decommission verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Providing weapons or taking weapons away, but you might be interested in these topics from the War, peace and fighting topic area:
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- arm verb
- armament noun
- armed adjective
- arms control noun
- arms race noun
- capability noun (WEAPONS)
- disarm verb (REMOVE WEAPONS)
- disarmament noun
- militarized adjective
- nuclear-free adjective
- pack verb (CARRY)
- peace dividend noun
- rearm verb
- reinforce verb
- tooled up adjective
- unarmed adjective
- under arms idiom
- with your bare hands idiom
Word of the Day
be under a cloud
to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
