Meaning of 'demob' in Yoruba is: demob


demob: demob

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Verb(1) retire from military service

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(1) On demob , he was given a wartime degree and went into the educational world as an administrator, working in many parts of the country until he finished up in charge of education in Keighley.(2) His demob diary, counting down the days until his national service was over, was preserved as a piece of personal history.(3) After demob in 1946, Bobby returned home to West Pelton, to his parents and to his childhood sweetheart, Nora Sampy, who lived nearby.(4) we were waiting for our demob(5) Forty years ago this summer, with the map of the Empire all but rolled up, the last British national servicemen returned to Blighty and swapped their battledress for demob suits.(6) Hmmmmu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u252cu00ac tomorrow I shall mostly be demob happy, as it's a single day back at work before my week off.(7) The demob suit also gave rise to the phrase u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510the full montyu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb after Montague Burton, as some former soldiers were only given a two-piece suit, while others were given a waistcoat as well.(8) Some think the Swede has simply gone demob happy.(9) Bill's demob papers from the RAF were also discovered intact in the case, which had been home to a family of mice.(10) Following his demob , he landed his first professional job at the Windmill Theatre in London's Soho.(11) It was exalted in contrast to u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510uniformity of provisionu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb, a state Milburn dismisses as the legacy from the years of u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510ration books and demob suitsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(12) They moved to a cottage on the outskirts of the city and eked out an existence on Trocchi's demob pay.(13) Half a lifetime later and Brian Aldiss remains in Oxford, quite happy to see out his winter years in a leafy suburb of the city he first came to as a feckless war veteran in a demob suit.(14) Before my demob in 1965, I dreamed of settling down in York.(15) Veterans from across the district have loaned items from the war to the museum, including costumes, uniforms, demob suits, children's clothes and a selection of women's dresses, shoes and hats.(16) He gets out to reveal a cheap, shining suit once given to his father on his demob from the war, Brylcreem stains on the collar, his yellowing hair matching the nicotine on his fingers.
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1. demobilize


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