0 present participle of decommission
1 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.
Without effective vessel resale markets or decommissioning grants fishing incomes can fall to very low levels before participants leave the fishery.
This, we are told, involves a decommissioning scheme costing £80 million.
The decommissioning of nuclear reactors is now an ongoing operation throughout the world as useful and safe lifespan comes to an end.
Vessel decommissioning, as required by effort reduction programs, would inflict a huge loss on fishery owners.
Removing the boats with the highest capacity first would involve the minimum decommissioning (in terms of boat numbers) and leave the largest fleet size that could take the target catch.
As far as other countries are concerned, we all recognise that the problem of decommissioning is not a local or even a national one but a global concern.
Having agreed the rules of procedure and agenda for the opening plenary the talks are now addressing the issue of decommissioning.
Calculations that have been made indicate that there is advantage in allowing radioactivity to decay before decommissioning is undertaken.
