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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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
He spoke in a 1997 TV documentary about emerging from the Royal Navy after World War II in his demob suit and with £80.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2010
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 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
After he was demobbed in 1946, Mr Lemon worked for the Inland Revenue until his retirement in 1970, aged 60.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
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
He, being now "demobbed" and a man of leisure, instead of reopening his flat in town, had taken up quarters at Courtenaye Coombe to superintend the repairs at the Abbey.
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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