mothballed'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.

The station was mothballed in the beginning of 1990.

It was mothballed by United Distillers in 1985, and sold to Allied Distillers in 1989.

Laysan Island was decommissioned in 1947 and mothballed, struck 1973 and sold for scrap in 1994.

The mothballed distillery was bought by Arthur Bell and Sons, but didn't open again until.

campaign was funded by Business for Sterling and New Europe groups and was mothballed in spring 2004 after Chancellor Gordon Brown ruled out UK membership of.

The South Staffordshire line is a partially mothballed and active former mainline that connects Burton-upon-Trent to Lichfield in Staffordshire and formerly.

After being mothballed in 1990, it was reopened in 2006 to operate on a seasonal basis.

opened, until 2012 when the line was mothballed beyond Napier.

The line has been restored to Wairoa but remains mothballed to Gisborne.

She was decommissioned in November 1946, when she was mothballed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.

Imperial was mothballed and reopened several times in its hundred-year history.

The distillery was mothballed in 1995 by then owner Whyte ' Mackay.

including the bridge to Kingswinford Junction but it has been fenced off and mothballed since 1994.

maintenance, a meaning coming over time to cover a reserve fleet or "mothballed" ships.

was reviewed as part of KiwiRail's turnaround plan, and was effectively mothballed north of Wairoa in early 2012 due to four significant washouts during.

Guardian-class radar picket ship acquired by the US Navy in 1955, from the "mothballed" reserve fleet.

was at its peak of production but seven years later the colliery was 'mothballed'.

This small but popular telescope was in danger of being mothballed for budgetary reasons.

Russian Antarctic Expedition (RAE), said: There are plans to open the mothballed stations Molodyozhnaya, Leningradskaya and Russkaya in the 2007–2008 season.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

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