The word "mothballed" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to store or put something away for a period of time in a way that it is preserved and protected from damage or decay. Examples: 1. The old aircraft carrier was mothballed in a naval base for years before it was finally scrapped. 2. Due to the economic downturn, the construction project was mothballed until further notice. 3. The government has decided to mothball the nuclear power plant due to safety concerns. 4. My grandmother's antique wedding dress was carefully mothballed and passed down through generations. 5. The company decided to mothball its plans for expansion until the market conditions improve.
The program was mothballed in March of last year, based on BJS's own judgment of its shortcomings, but it may be resurrected with the renewal by Congress last December of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act of 2000, designed primarily to count deaths in prisons and jails.
Few serious commentators, outside or inside the Ministry of Defence, now deny that last year's security and defence review was eccentric and bizarre, leaving the navy with two costly aircraft carriers, neither of which will carry aircraft for a decade, one due to be mothballed as soon as it is completed.
They were told the barracks would be mothballed and when the clubs tried to negotiate with the MoD they were given "an emphatic no".
It was all very pleasant strolling round the giant red-brick buildings and mothballed offices.
Reforms would probably include the revival of the Sinuiju special economic zone, which has been mothballed since its first governor, a businessman called Yang Bin, was jailed in his native China for tax evasion in 2002.
Although a good deal of the army's heavy armour and artillery will be mothballed or scrapped, investment in tactical-level networking a key lesson from Afghanistan will be given priority.
A market price well above that level will cause new supply to be brought on stream; too low a price will cause mines to be mothballed or arable land to be switched to other crops.
This symbol of French heavy industry, home to iron and steel for centuries, had been mothballed for months: in the summer Lakshmi Mittal, boss of the world's biggest steelmaker, said his strategy was to focus on his most productive sites, on the coast.
Much of that is mothballed and may have to be written off.
First, it will pay electricity firms to reopen mothballed gas stations, ready to fire up should chilly days require it.
South Africa bought 26 Gripen combat aircraft from Sweden but has mothballed half of them because of budget cuts.
