recommission
Americanverb (used with object)
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In addition, Trump is expected to announce funding to recommission and upgrade coal plants, following up on his administration’s moves last fall to provide money for such work.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 11, 2026
Once demand began to climb last year, oil companies scrambled to rehire people and recommission drilling rigs.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
I’ve known about Nate’s three-season arc since we were filming the gala episode in Season 1; Jason talked me all the way through it before we even had the recommission of the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
"This recommission confirms that we didn't screw it up. I shall take a moment to bask in the warm glow... OK, done that. Now the hard graft resumes."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2016
Going on board, Nat sent for the boatswain and gunners, and informed them that as he was to recommission the Spartane he was anxious to get as many of the hands to reship as possible.
From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
However, Wired previously reported a "viewership-versus-cost-of-renewal review process" in deciding recommissions.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2024
As for The Nightly Show's future, ITV says it will make a decision after the series has ended, adding: "We don't normally make decisions on recommissions until after a series has ended."
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2017
The title refers to mothballed warships and planes the U.S. recommissions because their pre-Internet technologies haven’t been hacked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2015
There's the sense that it's going somewhere, too, which you get from a novel adaptation but rarely from written-for-TV drama in search of repeated recommissions.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2012
History is lined with the corpses of old gameshows and, in a world where television recommissions are unlikely, perhaps taking them on the road is the smartest option all round.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2011
Old nuclear plants such as Three Mile Island are being recommissioned.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
The vehicle, which had been "lovingly recommissioned by a local mechanic", had been expected to fetch between £5,000 and £8,000.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2023
After their presidencies, George Washington and Dwight D. Eisenhower were recommissioned into the armed forces, though this was symbolic and short-lived.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021
Power substations and transformers that were switched off when flooded had been cleaned, tested and recommissioned, Westnetz, which is part of utility group E.ON, said in a statement.
From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2021
That night Sir John saw the Pope and was recommissioned in his service.
From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph
The plan is for the upper tier is to be removed after the tournament, allowing for further recommissioning of seats.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
It may also convert some gas-powered vehicles to electric, with a goal of recommissioning 25,000 vehicles this year.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
That’s unsurprising, given the likely expense of gearing up for a recommissioning application for Diablo Canyon before the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
In a statement MaPS said; ""MaPS' debt advice recommissioning is the most significant investment in debt advice ever made.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2021
But many of her ship's company were new to her, on recommissioning in May; and some were comparatively untrained for service on board a man-of-war.
From The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)
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