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DEMOBILIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops
Example:
immediate demobilization of the reserves
Synonyms:
demobilisation; demobilization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("demobilization" is a kind of...):
social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demobilization"):
disarmament; disarming (act of reducing or depriving of arms)
Antonym:
mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)
Derivation:
demobilize (retire from military service)
demobilize (release from military service or remove from the active list of military service)
