Meaning of deaccession | Babel Free

Definitions

The disposal of objects in this way, or the disposed object itself.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“At the last board meeting, trustee Edmund Carpenter moved to clamp down on private trades. All deaccessions, he proposed, should go to other museums, or failing that, to public sale with full disclosure of records and documentation. The motion failed to get a second and there the matter died.”

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