Meaning & use
Recommission
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To bring a ship, facility, or system back into active service after it has been decommissioned.
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The navy voted to recommission the retired battleship as a museum-worthy training vessel.
Engineers worked for months to recommission the shuttered power plant.
A note on using this word
Recommissioning is common for military vessels, which sometimes return to service decades after being mothballed.
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