Definition of "mothballed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of mothball. (verb)

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• "On the surface Abcourt seems to have the goods; known and growing resources, 12 million in mothballed infrastructure (estimated replacement value) and it resides in Quebec where the Provincial Government practically pays you to drill holes in the ground."
• "Musker: Basically then when 2-D went away here they kind of mothballed CAPS and CAPS had been kind of band-aided and paper-clipped together, the production software system."
• "Mr. Gates said the Guantanamo Bay facility would almost certainly be "mothballed" after the current detainees were freed or transferred to the U.S."