Discontinue vs Decommission - What's the difference?
discontinue | decommission |
To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying something.
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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 discontinue and decommission
is that discontinue is to interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying something while decommission is to take out of service or to render unusable.discontinue
English
Verb
(discontinu)- They plan to discontinue that design.
- I have discontinued school / Above a twelvemonth.
- Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.
- They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.
Synonyms
* terminate * break offAntonyms
* continue ----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.
