To release personnel from active military service or bring armed forces out of an active deployment state.
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Words that belong together
- demobilize personnel
- demobilize forces
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The account recorded when the personnel were demobilized.
The forces were demobilized after the active deployment ended.
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Word forms
- Base
- demobilize
- Past tense
- demobilized
- Past participle
- demobilized
- Present participle
- demobilizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- demobilize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are demobilizing
- Present perfect
- have/has demobilized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been demobilizing
- Past
- demobilized
- Past continuous
- was/were demobilizing
- Past perfect
- had demobilized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been demobilizing
- Future
- will demobilize
- Future continuous
- will be demobilizing
- Future perfect
- will have demobilized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been demobilizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: demobilize; demobilizes; demobilized; demobilized; demobilizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: demobilizes.
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