demob
Americanverb
noun
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short for demobilization See demobilization
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( as modifier )
a demob suit
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a soldier who has been demobilized
Etymology
Origin of demob
First recorded in 1915–20; originally short for demobilize
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Back in the UK, he acquired his first newspaper title, the Tooting and Balham Gazette, with his £300 demob payment.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2022
The 21-year-old left the Royal Flying Corps at the end of World War I and used his demob money to buy surplus food from the Army and sell it from a barrow in Hackney.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2013
Neilson himself had been an enthusiastic if indifferent soldier, serving in Aden, Kenya and Cyprus, and after his demob had carried his military fantasies about himself into the domestic realm.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2012
After serving the final two years of the second world war in the Royal Navy as a morse code operator, he started out as a journalist on demob in 1946 with the Greyhound Owner.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2010
We were going in the right direction and demob was in sight.
From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by John Cox
In a very modern invocation of the swords-to-plowshares principle, he has evidently told Ukrainian officials that its demobbed soldiers could soon be earning Silicon Valley-level salaries operating American data centers in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
John Stacey, 83, and John Halloran, 81, both from Cardiff, lost touch in 1959 after being demobbed from the army.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2019
A few years after being demobbed, Driver set up a nonprofit organisation called Arts In The Armed Forces, which puts on theatre performances for personnel at military bases.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2017
After being demobbed he returned to his first true love and opened an antique shop that flourished.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2017
France's experience with the ateliers nationaux is not encouraging, though 1919, when "demobbed" subalterns turn up their noses at £250 a year, is not 1848.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. by Various
Through the foggy mists of Liverpool rose a forest of cranes, "demobbing" big liners from war to peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
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