Decommission vs Uninstall - What's the difference?
decommission | uninstall |
To take out of service or to render unusable.
To remove or revoke a commission.
To remove or revoke a formal designation.
As verbs the difference between decommission and uninstall
is that decommission is to take out of service or to render unusable while uninstall is (computing) to completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.decommission
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(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.