Decommission vs Demise - What's the difference?
decommission | demise |
To take out of service or to render unusable.
To remove or revoke a commission.
To remove or revoke a formal designation.
(legal) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
Death.
End (less common, usually in a negative manner).
(transitive, obsolete, legal) To give.
(legal) To convey, as by will or lease.
(legal) To transmit by inheritance.
(legal) To pass by inheritance.
To die.
As verbs the difference between decommission and demise
is that decommission is to take out of service or to render unusable while demise is .decommission
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Verb
(en verb)- 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.
Anagrams
*demise
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(wikipedia demise)Noun
(en noun)- The lack of funding ultimately led to the demise of the project.