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mothball
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mothball
a small ball of camphor or naphthalene used to repel clothes moths in stored clothing, blankets, etc.

mothball [′mȯth‚bȯl]
(ordnance)
Placing military equipment into a state of long storage.


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is getting out of the UHMW-PE (ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene) business and is mothballing its Spherilene LLDPE plant in Lake Charles, La.
PALMDALE - Lockheed Martin has dropped the idea of mothballing its mammoth Building 601.
Regional updates include prospects for the next generation of base-load coal and nuclear units in the Southeast, continuing issues in MISO and the creation of ReliabilityFirst in the Midwest, the development of Regional Transmission Organizations and the hydro conditions in the West, evolving green house gas policies and capacity markets in the North East and mothballing of capacity and delays to the start of a nodal market in ERCOT.
 
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