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Subject: [OM] OT New "word", was reply for the Zuiko 50/1.8
From: Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:31:25 +0100
Hmm, please excuse me my sensitivity (:>)), but that looks and sounds
like an ugly concoction ...

... and I'm not sure how "to remove a work of art" can be intransitive.

Chris

At 15:59 +0000 23/09/02, suchismit@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Bill,
here it  is from dictionary.com
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de?ac?ces?sion   Pronunciation Key  (dk-sshn)
v. de?ac?ces?sioned, de?ac?ces?sion?ing, de?ac?ces?sions
v. tr.
To remove and sell (a work of art) from a museum's
collection, especially in order to purchase other works
of art: ìHe also denied that... friends of the museum
were permitted to buy... pieces that were deaccessionedî
(New York Times).

v. intr.
To remove a work of art from a museum's collection and
sell it.

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