mothball's Usage Examples:

A reserve fleet is informally said to be "in mothballs" or "mothballed"; an equivalent expression in unofficial modern US naval usage is "ghost.

primarily of naphthalene, but due to naphthalene's flammability, many modern mothball formulations instead use 1,4-dichlorobenzene.

The National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) consists of "mothballed" ships, mostly merchant vessels, that can be activated within 20 to 120 days to provide.

known as the "mothball fleet".

She was briefly reactivated in 1968 and sent to Vietnam to support US troops before returning to the mothball fleet in 1969.

oldest remaining parts of the Suisun Bay mothball fleet in stages.

theatre of operations and returned home in 1946 to be placed into the "mothball" fleet and sold in 1947.

A unit of the "mothball" fleet, she was berthed at Orange until moved to Galveston, 21 November.

theatre of operations and returned home in 1946 to be placed into the "mothball fleet" where she remained until sold in 1947 for commercial maritime service.

of operations and returned home in 1946 to be placed into the reserve "mothball" fleet where she silently remained until she was scrapped in 1971.

In 2010, the UK government announced it would mothball the facility as part of its Strategic Defence and Security Review.

Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan announces the ANC government decision to mothball the PBMR project.

After World War II, they were in a mothball state, but on 10 March 1959, they were handed over to Japan at Long Beach.

Synonyms:

naphthalene; globe; orb; camphor ball; camphor; ball;

Antonyms:

volatile storage; non-volatile storage; nonvolatile storage; software; unwind;