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
On demob in 1953, he established another bolthole atelier, with more clients.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2016
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
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
When he was demobbed in 1946, he said he got the only job he could: "office boy" at the Inland Revenue office in Luton, where his wife worked at the Vauxhall car factory.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
But it was after returning to the North Bank when he was demobbed, that he saw some of the most iconic figures of Welsh football.
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
When she was demobbed, Patricia, like other child combatants, received a reintegration package including clothes, bed sheets, shoes, three months of food rations and other basic items.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2019
I'm sorry, sir, but I'm to be demobbed with the third batch, and I've got my warrant in my pocket.
From General Bramble by André Maurois
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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