a freeing of requisitioned property, esp. from military to civilian control
intransitive verb
2.
to free requisitioned property
transitive verb
3.
to return (something that has been requisitioned by the military) to civilian control
Word origin
[1940–45; de- + requisition]This word is first recorded in the period 1940–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: airlift, debrief, redline, silkscreen, snorkelde- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), or intensity (decompound)