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1974 Senate Committee on Armed Services Fiscal Year 1975 Authorization for Military Procurement (Feb. 5-Mar. 2) p. 1282: The Navy will play this game by descoping the specification. 1982Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) (July 30) “Navy Staying With Plant”: But Pall said the term Watkins wanted was “de-scope,” which means the Navy is taking another look at work needed on the project. 1984Usenet: net.jokes (Jan. 23) “Glossary of NASA Terminology”: I’ve been collecting examples of the jargon in common use by people at NASA Headquarters.…Descope: verb, to redesign a project as a result of budget cuts (not the opposite of scope, q.v.). 2006 Joshua Holland AlterNet (July 17) “Iraq’s Reconstruction a Boondoogle by Design”: The 130 half-finished clinics will simply be removed from the contract—"de-scoping” is a new word one picks up quickly when looking at the hundreds of aborted projects in Iraq.