decommissionverb [ T ]
uk/ˌdiː.kəˈmɪʃ.ən/us/ˌdiː.kəˈmɪʃ.ən/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.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Providing weapons or taking weapons away
- arm
- armament
- armed
- arms control
- arms race
- bare
- capability
- disarm
- disarmament
- gun control
- militarized
- nuclear-free
- pack
- peace dividend
- rearm
- reinforce
- tooled up
- unarmed
- under arms idiom
- with your bare hands idiom