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🎨 Not requested 🧑‍✈️ Not officially appointed 🏗️ Not in service
uncommissioned

uncommissioned

6.7
Not yet officially put into use
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnkəˈmɪʃənd/
  • Specialized
: 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
1 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
1 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
7 6.7
operational
90 4.1
in-service
21 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.