0 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.
1 to officially take a factory or other industrial building out of use and make the area safe:
2 the act of officially taking a factory or other industrial building out of use:
Without effective vessel resale markets or decommissioning grants fishing incomes can fall to very low levels before participants leave the fishery.
Also, when certain fishing vessels are decommissioned, fishers may lose money that is invested in fishing gears as sunk costs.
A large number of vessels of all three gear types must be decommissioned to eliminate the excess capacity.
He was responsible for reallocating used naval equipment from decommissioned ships to active duty ships.
The paper also estimates the number of vessels to decommission to reduce the excess capacity.
Low-viability samples are often decommissioned and discarded.
Local authorities have been encouraged not only to commission new services from a wide range of potential providers but also to decommission in-house provision where it has not been cost-effective.
A large number of vessels of all gear types must be decommissioned to eliminate excess capacity in case 1 but not in case 2 (table 3).
