English-German translations for decommission

• Ausmustern
• stillegen
  Wir werden viele, sehr viele AKW in Zukunft stillegen müssen und es wäre gut gewesen, hätten wir uns schon viel früher damit beschäftigt. We are going to have to decommission a great many nuclear power stations in the future, something that we should perhaps have done much earlier.
• stilllegen
  Die britische Regierung muss einen genauen Plan vorlegen, wie sie diese radioaktive Müllkippe, die als Becken B30 bekannt ist, stilllegen will. The British Government must spell out a detailed plan as to how it is going to decommission this radioactive dump, known as the B30 pond.

Definition of decommission

• To take out of service or to render unusable
• To remove or revoke a commission
• To remove or revoke a formal designation

Examples

• They decommissioned the ship after the accident
• The Army decommissioned the Sherman tank by filling the turret with cement
• After his arrest, the officer was decommissioned from the police force
• The state highway was decommissioned and reverted to local control

Related words

• decommissioning
• decommodify
• decommunize
• decommunization
• decommunise