Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demobilize \De*mob"i*lize\, v. t. [Cf. F. d['e]mobiliser.] (Mil.) To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To release someone from military duty, especially after a war. 2 To disband troops, or remove them from a war footing. vb. 1 To release someone from military duty, especially after a war. 2 To disband troops, or remove them from a war footing.
WordNet
v. release from military service or remove from the active list of military service [syn: inactivate, demobilise] [ant: call up]
retire from military service [syn: demobilise, demob] [ant: mobilize, mobilize]
Usage examples of "demobilize".
Moreover, many of those who were demobilized were disabled or had no job skills, having been drafted before they could acquire them and then kept in the military for a decade or more.
In addition, many of the troops and junior officers who fought the battles of the Iran-Iraq War have retired from active service or have been demobilized, and they have taken their valuable combat experience with them.
Italy to be demobilized as originally planned, then Spoletium and Iguvium would have seen their full complement of veterans already.
Also, as nationalism declined and most of the regular armed forces were demobilized, the restless youth of the new generation found outlets for their adventure-lust in the uniformed branches of the UN Space Arm.
Major Gaynor, demobilized, a high-ranking officer at the age of twenty-five and still paying for it.
He 'was not unaccustomed to command, for quick upon the heels of his impulsive enlistment in the American Expeditionary Force in 1917, he had become a sergeant, and in France had won a battlefield commission, demobilizing as a captain.
Indeed, some defense savings had been effected by demobilizing units and mothballing ships and planes.
I can just see him quietly going back to Al Kebir, demobilizing his army and waiting for the gold to arrive.
There is no indication, for example, that they are demobilizing their conscripts who are at the end of their enlistment periods, nor any evidence of preparations for the new 'class' of conscripts that should have begun to arrive several days ago.
In between the zones where nothing was left alive, the Deutsche who had survived the war struggled to get on with their lives, to raise their crops and domestic animals, to care for refugees and demobilized soldiers, to rebuild damage from conventional weapons.
Rodham, however, had agreed to the ship's crews being paid off and assigned to inactive reserves as a cost cutting measure, a fact which meant that hundreds of thousands of highly trained personnel were being pulled from their ships and demobilized as quickly as ships were pulled from the front and sent to the main bases either above Earth, Sirius, or out at Carnovean Station.
Or they might put together a regiment or battalion of demobilized veterans.