Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🎨 Not requested 🧑‍✈️ Not officially appointed 🏗️ Not in service
uncommissioned

uncommissioned

6.7
Not yet officially put into use
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnkəˈmɪʃənd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : no puesto en servicio
  • The hospital's new wing remained uncommissioned due to delays in equipment delivery.

Examples

  • The power plant was still uncommissioned after months of construction and testing.

  • Several uncommissioned ships were docked at the harbor, waiting for their first assignments.

  • The uncommissioned project has been delayed for months.

  • The city has several uncommissioned buildings awaiting approval.

  • The new fire station remains uncommissioned until the safety inspections are completed.

  • All uncommissioned equipment in the warehouse will be evaluated for future use.

  • After completion, the bridge will remain uncommissioned until it passes final safety checks.

Synonyms

unimplemented
vsuncommissioned
  • Specialized
7.2

Not yet put into use, often in software or plans

is not yet officially placed into service for equipment or systems
unactivated
vsuncommissioned
6.5

Not started or turned on so it cannot be used

is used for formal nonuse before official service rather than simple inactivity

How Commissioned

commissioned
  • Specialized
6.7
operational
102 4.1
in-service
12 3.7
uncommissioned
  • Specialized
6.7

Surface Forms

uncommissioned positive

Morphology

uncommissioned = commissioned (transparent) = un + commission + ed

This sense is the negation of 'commissioned' in the sense 'put into service', so learners who know that sense of 'commission' can infer it.

Etymology

Uncommissioned is un- 'not' plus commission 'to put into service', like when a ship or building is 'commissioned' and begins work. So something uncommissioned has not yet been officially started or put to use.