Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from an active status, and may refer to:
Infrastructure
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Decommissioned offshore
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Decommissioned highway
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Greenfield status of former industrial sites
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Nuclear decommissioning
Military
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Decommissioning in Northern Ireland
Decommissioning in Northern Ireland was a process in the Belfast Agreement as part of the Northern Ireland peace process. Under the Belfast Agreement, all paramilitary groups fighting in the Troubles would decommission. Decommissioning was a def ...
of paramilitary weapons
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Decommissioning pennant, where a navy ship wears an extremely long commissioning pennant at the end of its commission overseas
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Demobilization of soldiers
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Disarmament
Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, such as ...
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Ship-Submarine Recycling Program
The Ship-Submarine Recycling Program (SRP) is the process that the United States Navy uses to dispose of decommissioned nuclear vessels. SRP takes place only at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) in Bremerton, Washington, but the preparations ...
for U.S. nuclear vessels
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Ship decommissioning
Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning. The term is most commonly applied to placing a warship ...
See also
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Commission (disambiguation)
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End-of-life (product)
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Planned obsolescence
In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is a policy of planning or designing a good (economics), product with an artificially limited Product lifetime, useful life o ...
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