0 present participle of mothball
1 to stop work on an idea, plan, or job, but leaving it in such a way that you can start on it again at some point in the future:
Mothballing is not an easy option for deep mines.
Instead of investing, companies are mothballing machines because, despite the initial signs of recovery at the end of 2009, demand is lacking.
Secondly, a system of mothballing relief for business premises only partly used during the recession should be introduced.
There is excellent potential for developing alternative employment, but that will be prevented if campaign operation status leads to the mothballing of the site.
Mothballing relief would breach the fundamental principle that the use of part of a hereditament constitutes occupation of the whole.
Mothballing relief, for example, would pave the way for arguments about what constitutes occupation for other classes of ratepayers, notably the domestic.
Mothballing is not a term that is recognised.
It will also mean the mothballing of the training school and no replacement of any personnel or vehicles.
