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recommission en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English commission English recommission From re- + commission.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To give a new commission or to validate an existing commission.
2. (transitive) To put back in service (undoing decommissioning).
   • 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." 2025 August 6, Richard Wilcock, “Old units... new lease of life”, in RAIL, number 1041, page 31:
   • They recommissioned the unused furnace, practically rebuilding it in the process.

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