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Demobilization   /dimˌoʊbəlaɪzˈeɪʃən/  /dimˌoʊbələzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Demobilization

noun
1.
Act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops.  Synonym: demobilisation.  "Immediate demobilization of the reserves"






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"Demobilization" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the Government of Sierra Leone and the other parties to the Peace Agreement in the implementation of the agreement; to monitor the military and security situation in Sierra Leone; to monitor the disarmament and demobilization of combatants and members of the Civil Defense Forces (CFD); to assist in monitoring respect ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... children and of their class is included in their eyes among the objects for which they fight. They will be more than ever jealous, after the war, of their recovered liberties, and determined to assert them. It is probable that one result of demobilization will be an enormous accession of strength to the ranks of the Socialist and Labour parties. The "class war" with which society was threatened before the European War broke out is not likely to be a less present danger when "that which now restraineth" ...
— Religious Reality • A.E.J. Rawlinson

... that the Czar did not order demobilization, and apart from his unquestioned right to prepare for eventualities in the event of the failure of the peace parleys, the Kaiser himself recognized in a later telegram that in the case of Germany when mobilization had once been started it could not ...
— The Evidence in the Case • James M. Beck

... Since his demobilization Harry had fallen deeply in love with an extremely pretty girl named Norah Peyton, who lived in a house overlooking the Terrace Gardens at Richmond, and whose father was partner in a firm of well-known importers ...
— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux

... of frontier peoples drew more or less advantage from the demobilization law—the people of the Toba, the Tibetans, and the Hsien-pi in the north, and the nineteen tribes of the Hsiung-nu within the frontiers of the empire. In the course of time all sorts of complicated relations developed among those ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard



Words linked to "Demobilization" :   social control, disarmament, disarming, demobilize, mobilization



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