Recommission
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Recommission is a verb meaning (transitive) To give a new commission or to validate an existing commission.
Meaning
(transitive) To give a new commission or to validate an existing commission.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To put back in service (undoing decommissioning).
Example Sentences
They recommissioned the unused furnace, practically rebuilding it in the process.
Hood explains: "It's never a case of just taking these units and dusting them down. Because they had been in storage, they had not undertaken their time-based overhaul, which had been due. They had also not undertaken their mileage-based overhaul, which was also due for all the sets. That caused a bit of a headache when it came to recommissioning them."
Word Forms
- recommissions
- recommissioning
- recommissioned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include opened, reopened, re-commission, reprise, recompence, recompense.
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