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Examples of demobilize in a Sentence
Both leaders agreed to demobilize their armies and sign the peace treaty.
Recent Examples of demobilize from the Web
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Even before details of the arrest were known, FARC leaders condemned it as a set-up that would undermine almost 7,000 demobilized rebel fighters' trust in the peace process.
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The ex-guerrillas turned in thousands of weapons and demobilized after more than 50 years, helping bring Colombia’s homicide rate down to historic lows.
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While the vast majority of the FARC demobilized under a 2016 peace deal, there are dissident factions.
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Its vast bureaucracies were disassembled, its armies were for the most part demobilized, and its profusion of factories were promptly converted to civilian use.
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The companies are now demobilizing workers as those federal contracts reach their limits.
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The county also declined to pay thousands of dollars in set-up and demobilizing costs, records show.
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And to keep—try to push out and then demobilize some of the Shia militia forces operating in the country right now, which is counterproductive for the U.S. forces.
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Two of the 20 disarmed and demobilized weeks later in the town of Bouar were women.
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First Known Use of demobilize
1882
DEMOBILIZE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of demobilize for English Language Learners
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: to release (someone or something) from military service
DEMOBILIZE Defined for Kids
Definition of demobilize for Students
demobilized;
demobilizing
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: to let go from military service
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: to change from a state of war to a state of peace
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