Hvad betyder mothball på engelsk?

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mothball Betydning & definition

0 a small ball of a chemical used to protect clothes from clothes moths. -- mølkugle

If we are not prepared to allow them to do that, we might as well mothball our national parliaments, turn them into museums and lock the door.
Great fleets of naval vessels remain in mothballs ready to be taken out as needed.
I understand that there are quite a number of ships in mothballs which are taken out occasionally.
If we need to build new and more modern frigates, does this mean the ones we have in mothballs are obsolete?
The project may be dead, or in mothballs.
Will it mean having to put frigates into "mothballs"?
Again, the factory still stands, but it, too, is in mothballs.
The factory still stands but is in mothballs.