Crossword clues for demob
demob
- Retire from mil. service
- Discharged British soldier
- Discharge or disband
- Disband, to Brits
- Disband, for short
- Retire from the military, Brit-style
- Release from military service (abbr)
- Muster out of the RAF
- Leave the service, in Britain
- Leave the service
- Leave Her Majesty's service, briefly
- Leave Her Majesty's service
- Discharged soldier
- Discharge from the service (Abbr.)
- Discharge from the army, Brit-style
- Discharge from army
- Disband, briefly
- Disband troops (Abbr.)
- Disband troops
- Army word
- Army maneuver
- Muster out of the R.A.F.
- Disband, postwar
- Brit's service discharge
- Discharge from the R.A.F.
- Discharge a Tommy
- Disband troops, British style
- Muster out, in the U.K.
- Tommy's discharge
- Completion of service by bishop after protest
- Early take-offs from Delta, easyJet, Monarch...oh, and BMI...put out of action
- Remove from fighting of French unruly crowd
- Protest over bishop - something happening at end of service
- Protest British post-war activity?
- Protest before leader of bishops put out of action?
- Partly to rig a migrant craft
- Discharge journalist that's upset common people
- Take out of active service
- Leave the army
- Discharge from the RAF
- Discharge, as from the RAF
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1920, short for demobilize. Originally in reference to World War I troops returning to civilian life. Related: Demobbed.
Wiktionary
vb. (context British English) To demobilize; to release someone from military service.
WordNet
v. retire from military service [syn: demobilize, demobilise] [ant: mobilize, mobilize]
Wikipedia
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 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’.