DEACCESSION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they deaccession ... he / she / it deaccessions

Past simple: deaccessioned

Past participle: deaccessioned

-ing form: deaccessioning

Meaning:

Sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works

Example:

The museum deaccessioned several important works of this painter

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "deaccession" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something