0 past simple and past participle of demobilize
1 to release someone from one of the armed forces, especially at the end of a war:
He was demobilized in March 1946.
The unemployed workers' movement was largely demobilized in 1935.
Instead, local elites in business and agriculture dominated these demobilized polities.
This approach suggests that campaign negativism stimulated (rather than demobilized) turnout in presidential elections from 1980 through 2000.
These policies suffer from the fact that the benefactors of the programs are politically demobilized.
After 1991, many of them were demobilized.
All else equal, the incumbent party is able to mobilize more supporters, relative to the non-incumbent party, in good economic times and more supporters are demobilized in adverse economic times.
Many difficulties will have to be overcome before war-time restrictions can be demobilized and freer international trade built up.
It is of the utmost importance that demobilized fishermen should find these facilities awaiting them on their return to civil life.
