MOTHBALL - Translation from English into Arabic

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in the PONS Dictionary

mothball VB

mothball: أعفى من الخدمة

mothball: جَمَدَ

mothball <a mothball; mothballs> N

mothball: نفتالين

mothball CHEM: كُرَةٌ منَ النَّفْتَالِين

Present
I	mothball
you	mothball
he/she/it	mothballs
we	mothball
you	mothball
they	mothball

Past
I	mothballed
you	mothballed
he/she/it	mothballed
we	mothballed
you	mothballed
they	mothballed

Present Perfect
I	have	mothballed
you	have	mothballed
he/she/it	has	mothballed
we	have	mothballed
you	have	mothballed
they	have	mothballed

Past Perfect
I	had	mothballed
you	had	mothballed
he/she/it	had	mothballed
we	had	mothballed
you	had	mothballed
they	had	mothballed

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Post-referendum, it will be more difficult to deliver affordable homes as developers mothball schemes.

www.standard.co.uk

Had a friend working there told me they were going to mothball it, 2 weeks ago.

www.interest.co.nz

The decision was already made by then to mothball the project, and so the locomotive was returned to long-term storage.

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This organization was established in response to severe manpower shortages and was not similar in any respect to the contemporary reserve or mothball fleet.

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Schools can't mothball staff just because they have been around for a while either.

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