Decommission vs Terminate - What's the difference?
decommission | terminate |
To take out of service or to render unusable.
To remove or revoke a commission.
To remove or revoke a formal designation.
To end, especially in an incomplete state.
* J. S. Harford
To kill.
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
(label) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
As verbs the difference between decommission and terminate
is that decommission is to take out of service or to render unusable while terminate is to end, especially in an incomplete state.As an adjective terminate is
terminated; limited; bounded; ended.decommission
English
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.