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- verb Present participle of
deaccession .
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Examples
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Selling museum holdings - called "deaccessioning" - has been a controversial act for many institutions, since donors believe they are adding to a collection and are dismayed to find out their generosity has been monetized to plug budget holes or buy something better.
Fore, right! 2009
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Selling museum holdings - called "deaccessioning" - has been a controversial act for many institutions, since donors believe they are adding to a collection and are dismayed to find out their generosity has been monetized to plug budget holes or buy something better.
Fore, right! 2009
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Selling museum holdings - called "deaccessioning" - has been a controversial act for many institutions, since donors believe they are adding to a collection and are dismayed to find out their generosity has been monetized to plug budget holes or buy something better.
Fore, right! 2009
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They sell things off now and then, although they prefer to call it deaccessioning, which is a particularly choice example of newspeak, don't you think?
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza Block, Lawrence 1980
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"I think it's important, to maintain public trust, to be transparent," he said Wednesday, calling the deaccessioning justifiable and a "smart decision."
Phillies Zone 2011
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In the museum world, that's known as deaccessioning, and it's a loaded word.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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It explores the art world's controversial issue of "deaccessioning," a reference to the sale of artworks and other objects from a museum's permanent collection.
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Can the plan to dismantle the Barnes art collection to overcome financial mismanagement not be defined as "deaccessioning"?
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The announcement of the sales - termed "deaccessioning" by collecting institutions - is the second from a Philadelphia museum this year.
Phillies Zone 2011
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But calling what they're doing a "deaccessioning" is intended to avoid (or at least has the effect of avoiding) all of those difficult questions.
The Art Law Blog 2009
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Deaccessioning is the word for the routine process of formally removing an item from a museum’s permanent collection.
Commentary: Baltimore Museum of Art uses COVID as cover to sell a Warhol. Floodgates open Christopher Knight 2020
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