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Verb: demobilize  dee'mow-bu,lIz
  1. Release from military service or remove from the active list of military service
    "The soldiers were demobilized after the war ended";
    - inactivate, demobilise [Brit]
     
  2. Discharge from military service
    "The soldiers were demobilized after the war";
    - demobilise [Brit], demob [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: demobilizing, demobilized, demobilizes

Type of: discharge, muster out

Encyclopedia: Demobilize