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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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
It should be noted that Australia were demob happy by then.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2014
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
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
The store was founded in 1948 by the late Jules Ouaki after he was demobbed from the Free French army.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2020
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
Directly I was demobbed, the family started talking about the Land of Opportunity and shot me on to a liner.
From Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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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