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Demobbed is a 1946 British comedy film directed by John E. Blakeley and starring Norman Evans , Nat Jackley , Gus McNaughton and Dan Young . Its plot concerns a group of ex-soldiers who attempt to gain employment after being discharged from the army.
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vb. (en-past of: demob )
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v. retire from military service [syn: demobilize , demobilise ] [ant: mobilize , mobilize ] [also: demobbing , demobbed ]
Usage examples of demobbed.
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.
Directly I was demobbed, the family started talking about the Land of Opportunity and shot me on to a liner.