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de·mob

 (dē-mŏb′) Chiefly British
tr.v. de·mobbed, de·mob·bing, de·mobs
To demobilize (armed forces).
n.
Demobilization of armed forces.
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demobbed

(diːˈmɒbd)
adj
(Military) informal Brit (of former soldiers) having been released from the armed forces
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demobbed

[diːˈmɒbd] (British) adj [soldier] → démobilisé(e)
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At the end of the war, he was sent to Palestine where he was demobbed in 1946.
Geoffrey was demobbed six months later, returning home to Oakham.
As in the film, hero Jerry is a demobbed GI who stays in France to try and make it as a painter and falls in love with a local girl.
Hero Jerry is a demobbed GI who stays in France to try to make it as a painter, falling in love with a local girl.
Demobbed Tom Sherbourne (Fassbender) becomes lighthouse keeper off the coast of Western Australia, meeting and marrying witty, beautiful Isabel (Alicia Vikander).
It is a pleasant memory for me that I was accepted so marvellously as a wedding photographer being a Polish demobbed soldier, not to mention my late Huddersfield born and bred wife that she married me without any hesitation and the fantastic life we had together.
He used to watch me like a hawk!" The pair ended up getting married in Germany as Rita turned 20, and Leonard was shortly afterward posted back to England in 1963, where he was demobbed from the Army.
"Gib had just been demobbed a few weeks before, and he had his 'demob suit' on.
Beatrice Pearson, known to many as Bette, and husband Brian, both 81, met in Nottingham where he was serving in the Army and after being demobbed, they married and settled in Pelton Fell, Chester-le-Street.
On being demobbed, he was snapped up by Rank Studios.
THE Britain that four million demobbed men came home to between the summer of 1945 and the Christmas of 1946 had changed, and the people the servicemen returned to had changed as well.
IT WAS a dark, cold evening when I stepped off the train at Middlesbrough in February 1954, have just been demobbed from the RAF, writes R Ducker, of Northallerton.