What is "demilitarise"

Usage examples of "demilitarise".

A few were retained, demilitarised, to act as express delivery systems for small packages of matter - humans, for example - on the rare occasions when the transmission of information alone was not sufficient to deal with a problem, and an even smaller number were kept intact and operational.

Even while the Minds concerned had been contending that a single abrupt and crushing blow would benefit all concerned - including the Affront, not just ultimately, but soon - the Culture's warships were being stood down, deactivated, componented, stored and demilitarised by the tens of thousands, while its trillions of citizens were congratulating themselves on a job well done and returning with the relish of the truly peace-loving to the uninhibited enjoyment of all the recreational wonders the resolutely hedonism-focused society of the Culture had to offer.

I suspect it will prove to be a warship which apparently went Eccentric or Ulterior at some point in the last five hundred years and was - supposedly, not actually - demilitarised by one of the conspirators.

He also hoped it was true about The Ends of Invention being totally demilitarised, and the volume around Vavatch being free of Culture ships.

The last ship is an old demilitarised war craft of a type commonly used throughout the galaxy for this sort of picket duty.

Perhaps it was some elaborate joke to send him on the final leg of his journey aboard a one-time warship - a Gangster class Rapid Offensive Unit which had been demilitarised to become a Very Fast Picket - called Resistance Is Character-Forming.

The Times, which had wilfully ignored the reports coming from their own man in Berlin throughout the early thirties, the Observer, which had applauded Hitler's invasion of the demilitarised Rhineland in 1936, the Daily Mail, which had been stupidly pro-Nazi, and Beaverbrook's own Daily Express,which had repeatedly furthered the shaky cause of peace by urging `no intervention' as Hitler tore up treaties, broke rules and extended his territorial imperative.

A variation was used to attack the Romulan royal family, and finally, just before his defection, Tom Riker repor­ted dealing with the virus on a planet in what was then the demilitarised zone between the Federation and Cardassia.