单词 | demobilization |
释义 | demobilizationn. The action or process of demobilizing a military force, troops, etc. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > levying or mobilizing > disbanding disordering1523 disbanding1611 cash1617 cashiering1629 reducing1646 reformation1668 reform1698 disbandment1720 demobilization1850 disembodiment1871 demob1918 1850 Morning Post 9 Dec. It is announced that the demobilization of the army has been resolved upon. 1866 Spectator 14 Apr. 397/2 Austria has demanded the de-mobilization of the Prussian army. 1885 Manch. Examiner 26 Aug. 5/4 An order..for the demobilisation of the First-class Army Reserve. 1918 Act 15 Geo. V c. 6 §11 The mobilisation or demobilisation of any of His Majesty's forces or any member thereof. 1946 News Chron. 2 Mar. 2/2 The difficulties of demobilisation and of industrial re-conversion. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 23 Nov. 9/1 Specialists in nuclear weapons, orders of battle and strategic studies faced intellectual demobilisation overnight. 2006 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Aug. 9/3 Professionals thus refer to the entire activity as disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, or D.D.R. Compounds General attributive, as demobilization camp, demobilization leave, etc. Cf. demob n. Compounds 1.With quot. 1953 cf. demob suit n. at demob n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1918 P. C. March Let. 23 Dec. in Boys' Life (1919) Feb. 28/2 This circular will be brought to the attention of officers and men at demobilization camps. 1946 Vogue June 88/2 Hardly anyone's prepared to job-hunt till they've had their demobilisation leave. 1953 A. Smith Blind White Fish in Persia i. 27 I also put in my demobilization suit. 1965 J. Gale Clean Young Englishman iii. 101 I wore my demobilisation suede shoes and a mustard ferreting coat. 2008 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Apr. 25 30,000 Maoist guerrillas have remained in UN-supervised demobilisation camps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1850 |
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