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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of recommission.
- adj. commissioned again
Examples
“Despite having less chance of re-entering current popular culture than The Word getting recommissioned, the beats are seemingly as big as ever at clubs across the country as Big Beat Reunion spreads its breakbeats and techno-tinged tentacles far and wide.”
“They could be "recommissioned," but the way they count things, which is very complicated, we think we have about a third of the nuclear weapons we had before.”
“Jo Brand's brilliant NHS comedy has been recommissioned.”
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“Other examples of inadvertent indiscretions include actor Stephen Mangan's revelation on Twitter that the drama Dirk Gently had been recommissioned and Armando Iannucci's announcement of a return of the comedy The Thick of It before the BBC was ready to make it public.”
The Guardian: BBC acts to stop Twitter leaks by stars and writers
“This weepie can only end in more tears – and it couldn't help but be moving – though it might need a sharper edge if the BBC hopes to draw its natural constituency away from ITV's comforting Downton Abbey (already recommissioned for a second series) these darkening Sunday nights.”
“Anyone who remembers Pulling, the fabulous and fabulously filthy comedy that Sharon Horgan co-wrote and starred in and which was criminally not recommissioned by some eeeediot at the BBC, might be surprised by this.”
“The jazzy crime romp is one of a clump of programmes that are repeatedly recommissioned by channel nabobs, without anyone really knowing why.”
The Guardian: Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
“Set in rolling acres of productive farmland, remote and easily defended, it has a bio-mass boiler for heat (ie it burns wood) and has recently recommissioned its original water driven mini hydro-elecric generator.”
“Finally, there is a future section, dealing with the Fresh Kills Landfill on New York's Staten Island that was recommissioned to take the debris of 9/11, and how it is—movingly—being renewed as a park.”
“An American-based Israeli subsidy developed UAVs that were used to coordinate firing of the battleships that were recommissioned when was Reagan was President too.”
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