demobilize
verb(British English also demobilise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they demobilize | |
| he / she / it demobilizes | |
| past simple demobilized | |
| past participle demobilized | |
| -ing form demobilizing |
- (also British English, informal demob)[transitive] demobilize somebody
to release somebody from military service, especially at the end of a war （尤指战后）使退伍，使复员 We were waiting to be demobilized. 我们在等着被遣散。 The army has demobilized 200 000 soldiers in the last two years. 在过去的两年里，军队已经遣散了20万名士兵。
- [intransitive] (of a country or group of soldiers)
to stop military activities （尤指战后）使退伍，使复员 The president insisted the rebels must disarm and demobilize. 总统坚持叛军必须解除武装并复员。
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French démobiliser, from dé- (expressing reversal) + mobiliser ‘mobilize’.