How do you use Decommission in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like recall or withdraw, plus the exact meaning.
Decommission in a sentence
Related words
Decommission meaning
- To take out of service or to render unusable.
- To remove or revoke the commission of.
- To remove or revoke the formal designation of.
Using Decommission
- The main meaning on this page is: To take out of service or to render unusable. | To remove or revoke the commission of. | To remove or revoke the formal designation of.
- Useful related words include: recall, call in, call back, withdraw.
- In the example corpus, decommission often appears in combinations such as: to decommission, decommission the, decommission all.
Context around Decommission
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Decommission
- In this selection, "decommission" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fully, part, two and older stand out and add context to how "decommission" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 10b to decommission the first and billion to decommission the plant. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "decommission" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with decommission
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It will decommission all its coal plants by 2038. (9 words)
It will take several years to fully decommission and reclaim the power plant. (13 words)
Operators have decided to decommission another 10 units across the country since Fukushima. (13 words)
The International Renewable Energy Agency now predicts that next year it will become cheaper to decommission older coal-fired power stations and replace them with utility-scale solar than it would be to keep running the plants in the first place. (41 words)
He said that they had taken the decision to decommission the pottery's large kiln, which was capable of firing 1,000 mugs at a time, because it was costing £200 each time it was fired up. (37 words)
The safest thing to do is to decommission them and place them in a yard and as a result, you get less trains in service and the occurrence of people on top of moving trains," said Moemi. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
He said that they had taken the decision to decommission the pottery's large kiln, which was capable of firing 1,000 mugs at a time, because it was costing £200 each time it was fired up.
On Sunday, the Asian Development Bank said it had reached a conditional deal to decommission an Indonesian power plant nearly seven years earlier than planned as part of its Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM).
The comments made by former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams as the IRA and other paramilitary groups were coming under pressure to decommission their weapons, are revealed in newly released State papers from the National Archives.
As part of the relocation of the Company's bottling assets, the Company will decommission and vacate its current manufacturing facility in Long Beach, California.
Even once blast furnace four is shut down, work will then commence to decommission part of the site and make it safe.
ExxonMobil is likely to bill Guyana close to US$10B to decommission the first five oil projects sanctioned in the Stabroek Block.
Russia was forced to decommission all of its carriers between 1991 and 1996 to cut costs, with the only surviving carrier being the Admiral Kuznetsov.
The bank has applied for planning permission to decommission the branch, which will see the removal of the existing shop front.
The shocking revelations came at a pivotal moment in the peace process when the Good Friday Agreement was being reviewed and negotiations to get the IRA to decommission its weapons were ongoing.
The village previously had to decommission two contaminated wells, making it more difficult to supply clean drinking water to residents.
The International Renewable Energy Agency now predicts that next year it will become cheaper to decommission older coal-fired power stations and replace them with utility-scale solar than it would be to keep running the plants in the first place.
The safest thing to do is to decommission them and place them in a yard and as a result, you get less trains in service and the occurrence of people on top of moving trains," said Moemi.
This led to the NSF making the decision to decommission the telescope after 57 years.
It needs to spend an estimated 8 trillion yen ($74 billion) to decommission the plant and 6 trillion yen ($55 billion) for decontamination.
It will decommission all its coal plants by 2038.
It will take several years to fully decommission and reclaim the power plant.
Jo Hemmings, a behavioural psychologist who has worked for shows including Big Brother, said it was time for ITV to decommission the programme.
The Willmar Municipal Utilities Commission, following the recommendation of staff, decided in November to decommission the Willmar Power Plant.
In December 2017 Ecuador’s National Assembly, at the urging of President Lenin Moreno, Correa’s hand-picked successor who took office earlier in the year, passed legislation to decommission the central bank electronic money system.
Operators have decided to decommission another 10 units across the country since Fukushima.
Common combinations with decommission
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to decommission 18×
- decommission the 9×
- decommission all 3×
- will decommission 2×
- decommission and 2×