demobilize

Verb

Meaning

To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.

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Cooper, Woodrow Wilson, 544, 557–560; Bailey calls Wilson's rejection, "The Supreme Infanticide," Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal (1945) p. 271. Post war: 1919–1920 Wilson's administration did effectively demobilize the country at the war's end. Source: Internet

Human rights Watch is urging Colombia's leftist rebel and rightist paramilitary forces to end all recruitment of children under 18 and demobilize those already in their ranks. Source: Internet

Films must be made to say these things, to counteract the violence and the meanness, to buy time to demobilize the hatreds. Source: Internet

These unacceptable demands, together with the Bulgarian refusal to demobilize its army after the Treaty of London had ended the common war against the Ottomans, alarmed Greece, which decided to also maintain its army's mobilization. Source: Internet

Dissidents from the FARC’s 1st Front, which has deep links to the illicit drug trade, have already announced their intention to not demobilize. Source: Internet

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