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1866 Glasgow Herald 6 Sept. 4/1 The whole army is civilianized to a still greater degree by the rapid re-absorption of the military element into private life.

1901 N.Y. Times 17 Nov. 2/1 (Heading) Movement to civilianize German and French officers.

1955 Daily Tel. 9 Dec. 6/4 When Servicemen in a Government establishment are replaced by civilian workers their jobs are said to be ‘civilianised’.

1969 Sci. Jrnl. Nov. 6/2 In the early 1960s there was a strong movement to civilianize M[icrobiological] R[esearch] E[stablishment].

1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army v. 58 Senior officers evidently fear that wives' careers, house purchase and a family life outside a military environment are bound to civilianise the Army.

2006 B. Rostker I want You! 199 The commission finally suggested that, at a force level of 2.5 million men, about 106,000 positions could be civilianized.

1891 Times 23 Feb. 6/2 Transfer them, in a civilized and civilianized condition, into the hands..of the Irish Executive.

1948 Lancs. Daily Post 20 July 1/8 A Ministry of Agriculture camp for ‘civilianized’ Germans.

2005 J. O. Ihonvbere in O. Ukaga & O. G. Ofoagu Sustainable Developm. in Afr. v. 99 In place of military dictatorship, we are seeing civilianized military juntas as in The Gambia,..Burkina Faso, and Niger.