DEMOBILIZATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops

Example:

immediate demobilization of the reserves

Synonyms:

demobilisation; demobilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("demobilization" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demobilization"):

disarmament; disarming (act of reducing or depriving of arms)

Antonym:

mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)

Derivation:

demobilize (retire from military service)

demobilize (release from military service or remove from the active list of military service)