Recommissioned

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To reinstate a previously used item or individual for operational duty after being inactive for some time
2. To return an object or person to a functional status after a phase of inactivity or disuse
3. Placed back into service or duty after a period of inactivity or being out of use

Etymology: "Recommissioned" is the past tense and past participle of "recommission," which means to put a ship, aircraft or other piece of equipment back into service after it has been laid up or taken out of use. Its history is essentially that of its two parts: the prefix "re-", meaning "again," and "commission," which comes into English through Old French from Latin "commissio," a noun from "committere," to entrust or bring together. The verb is a straightforward formation, built by attaching "re-" to "commission." The "commission" half carries the older sense of an authority or task formally entrusted to someone, and the military and naval use of the word, where a ship is "commissioned" when it is formally put into service, gives "recommission" its particular association with vessels and armed forces.

Synonyms: rehabilitated, reactivated, restored, reinstated, revived

Antonyms: decommissioned, retired, deactivated, abandoned, discarded