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
Example Sentences
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After his demob he went to the Slade School of Fine Art, from where he graduated in 1957 and set out to make a living as an illustrator.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2022
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
After demob, he divided his time between repertory and the West End before his television comedy career took off in 1960 with Michael Bentine's frenetic It's a Square World.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
Designer Neil Irish conceived a chorus kitted out in bowler hat, demob suits and just enough makeup to hint at the theatrical mask, each different enough to suggest they're individuals.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010
We were going in the right direction and demob was in sight.
From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by Cox, John
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
JL Carr called his brief, luminous, utterly original 1980 novel of a recently demobbed soldier finding peace and purpose in a Yorkshire belfry A Month in the Country.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2018
After being demobbed he returned to his first true love and opened an antique shop that flourished.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2017
"Drive as fast as you dare without being held up," I ordered; and Timmins, lately demobbed from the Tank Corps, obeyed with violence.
From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
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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