recommission

Meanings

verbrecommission (third-person singular simple present recommissions, present participle recommissioning, simple past and past participle recommissioned)

present singular third person recommissions · participle present recommissioning · participle past recommissioned · past recommissioned

transitiveTo give a new commission or to validate an existing commission.
transitiveTo put back in service (undoing decommissioning).
They recommissioned the unused furnace, practically rebuilding it in the process.
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Hood explains: "It's never a case of just taking these units and dusting them down. Because they had been in storage, they had not undertaken their time-based overhaul, which had been due. They had also not undertaken their mileage-based overhaul, which was also due for all the sets. That caused a bit of a headache when it came to recommissioning them."
2025 August 6, Richard Wilcock, “Old units... new lease of life”, in RAIL, number 1041, page 31