Meaning | Act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops. |
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Examples | - "demobilization of factories"
- "immediate demobilization of the reserves"
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Synonym | demobilisation |
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Narrower | disarming, disarmament | Act of reducing or depriving of arms |
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Broader | social control | Control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
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Opposite | mobilization, mobilisation, militarization, militarisation | Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency / emergency |
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Spanish | desmovilización |
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Catalan | desmobilització |
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Verbs | demobilize | retire from military service |
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demobilize | release from military service or remove from the active list of military service |