单词 | recommission |
释义 | recommissionv. 1. transitive. To commission again (in various senses); to restore to a commission. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > launching a vessel > launch or set afloat [verb (transitive)] > commission > anew recommissiona1770 society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > appointment to rank > appoint to rank [verb (transitive)] > again recommission1888 a1770 A. Hervey Jrnl. (1953) (modernized text) 236 I was re-commissioned for the Hampton Court. 1799 Naval Chron. 2 301 When re-commissioned, Lord Augustus Fitzroy was appointed to command her [sc.L'Imperieuse]. 1858 Times 24 Nov. 9/5 Paying off a fleet in 1857 and re~commissioning the same fleet in 1858. 1888 Times 22 Nov. 5/1 They will be recommissioned with the grades which they held in the Russian army. 1910 Naval & Mil. Rec. 21 Sept. The Wear, destroyer,..recommissioned..for service in the third..Destroyer flotilla. 1940 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 25 324 On July 25, 1932, President Hoover appointed him minister to Haiti, and on March 17, 1933, President Roosevelt recommissioned him. 1986 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Aug. (Metro section) b1 Recently he worked on a proposal that was accepted by the Navy to recommission battleships. 2006 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 27 Oct. 11 ITV confirmed yesterday it would not recommission the soap opera, which has run for seven years. 2. intransitive. Of a ship: to receive a new commission. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > organize naval affairs, etc. [verb (intransitive)] > of ship: be commissioned recommission1881 commission1893 1881 Navy List Apr.–June 209/2 Surgeon James B. Armstrong..will be appointed to the ‘Fly’ when she recommissions. 1907 Times 17 Sept. 6/3 When a vessel completes her two years' commission, under the new scheme she re-commissions with the nucleus crew of one of the Home Fleet ships. 1928 Observer 15 July 12/4 It was intended that she should return home at the end of the present cruise to re-commission. 1977 Navy News June 15/1 The Arethusa recommissioned at Portsmouth in April. 2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Apr. 29 She [sc. the battleship Warspite] went to America for repairs, recommissioning in 1942 for the Eastern Fleet. Derivatives recoˈmmissioning n. ΚΠ 1821 Edinb. Advertiser 19 Oct. 256/3 The Driver, 18 gun sloop, Captain C. H. Reid, arrived at Portsmouth, on Thursday, from Leith, to be paid off for recommissioning. 1922 Daily Mail 3 Nov. 12/5 Naval Appointments..to Emperor of India on recommissioning. 2005 R. H. Brown in G. Junne & W. Verkoren Postconflict Devel. vi. 103 Part of the urgent relief program..was the recommissioning of Kosovo A & B Power Stations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1770 |
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