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to unmobilize

to unmobilize

8.1
To send soldiers, teams, and equipment home and stop military or emergency activity
  • verb
  • /ˌʌnˈmoʊbɪlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : desmovilizar
  • After the treaty, the government unmobilized the reserve units and sent the soldiers home.

Examples

  • The country quickly unmobilized its emergency teams once the crisis was over.

  • The government decided to unmobilize the troops.

  • Once peace was declared, they began to unmobilize military resources across the region.

  • They will unmobilize the resources next week.

  • After the treaty, the government unmobilized the reserve units and sent the soldiers home.

  • The country quickly unmobilized its emergency teams once the crisis was over.

  • Once peace was declared, they began to unmobilize military resources across the region.

Synonyms

to deactivate
vsto unmobilize
  • Formal
21 4.3

To take a person or unit out of active service

is used specifically for returning troops and resources to civilian life
to demobilize
vsto unmobilize
  • Specialized
4 7.5

To release soldiers from military service and return them to civilian life

means the same action of returning troops to normal status
to inactivate
vsto unmobilize
  • Formal
1 7.2

To officially take a person or unit out of military service

focuses on returning people or resources to normal civilian status
to demob
vsto unmobilize
  • Archaic
9.1

To release someone from the military after their service

means the same action without the regional label

Antonyms

to mobilize
76 5.8

To organize people and resources to take action for a goal

How Mobilized

to remobilize
  • US
1 6.8
to mobilize
34 6.1
to unmobilize
  • Specialized
8.1

Surface Forms

unmobilize infinitive
unmobilized past
unmobilized past participle
unmobilizing present participle
unmobilizes third person singular

Morphology

unmobilize = mobilize (transparent) = un + mobilize

Formed by the productive prefix 'un-' added to the verb 'mobilize' to indicate reversal or cessation, so the meaning is directly inferable from the parts.

Etymology

Unmobilize starts with un- meaning 'undo' and the main part mobilize, which is from the same root as mobile and automobile and means 'move' or 'make ready to move'. So, to unmobilize is to 'undo' that moving or readiness of troops or resources and send them back to normal.