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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
demob
verb
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
demob

1920, short for demobilize. Originally in reference to World War I troops returning to civilian life. Related: Demobbed.

Wiktionary
demob

vb. (context British English) To demobilize; to release someone from military service.

WordNet
demob
  1. v. retire from military service [syn: demobilize, demobilise] [ant: mobilize, mobilize]

  2. [also: demobbing, demobbed]

Wikipedia
Demob (TV series)

Demob was a short-lived British comedy-drama television series, which screened for one six-episode series in 1993, this it was produced by Talkback Productions in association with Yorkshire Television for ITV.

The series was set in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and starred Martin Clunes and Griff Rhys Jones as two ex-army friends who decide to try to form an entertainment act, with the aim of getting work on BBC radio. The series also starred Samantha Janus, Amanda Redman and Les Dawson.

Demob (band)

Demob are a British punk rock band from Gloucester.

Usage examples of "demob".

Ashton would have been twenty-six or twenty-seven when he was demobbed and it was strange that a man of his drive and character should still have been a private soldier.

I was also disbarred from working in any State enterprise, and Social security was a joke, the PSP apparatchiks had taken it over, head to toe, by the time I was demobbed.

Since his demob from the Fleet, a year after all the hysteria of the Canes Venatici incident had come to nothing but the same kind of worn diplomacy that had begun it, he had worked all over the sky, traveling a slow Archimedean spiral in three dimensions, tracking in from Venatici through the Crow and the Heavy Stars.

Directly I was demobbed, the family started talking about the Land of Opportunity and shot me on to a liner.

DeMob gave me a reasonably secure cover identity as a playboy remittance man from a primogeniture polity, sent to while away his youth in less hidebound (and politically loaded) biomes, and it’.