demobilize
verb🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪz/
🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪz/
(British English also demobilise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they demobilize | 🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪz/ 🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪz/ |
| he / she / it demobilizes | 🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪzɪz/ 🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple demobilized | 🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪzd/ 🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪzd/ |
| past participle demobilized | 🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪzd/ 🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪzd/ |
| -ing form demobilizing | 🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪzɪŋ/ 🔊/diːˈməʊbəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- (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. 我们正在等待复员。 The army has demobilized 200 000 soldiers in the last two years. 在过去两年中，军队已经遣散了20万士兵。
- [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. 总统坚称叛军必须解除武装并复员。
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French démobiliser, from dé- (expressing reversal) + mobiliser ‘mobilize’.