mobilization
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English
Alternative forms
- mobilisation (Commonwealth excluding Canada)
Etymology
From French mobilisation or mobilize + -ation.
Noun
mobilization (countable and uncountable, plural mobilizations)
- The act of mobilizing.
- a national mobilization to fight climate change
- 2018 June 26, Chris Hayes, quotee, “How bad is it, really? Ezra Klein evaluates life in the Trump era: transcript & podcast”, in Why Is This Happening?:
- It's produced tremendous activism and backlash: there's been all sorts of demonstrations and mobilizations in civil society, there's been examples from the people from the Administration being heckled in a restaurant or not served in a restaurant, there's been a growing crescendo of conversation about what that means.
- The marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for an action.
- 2024 April 16, Olga Voitovych, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Christian Edwards, “Zelensky signs law overhauling Ukraine’s mobilization rules”, in CNN:
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a key piece of legislation overhauling the country’s mobilization rules.
- (geology) The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place.
- (genetics) The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another.
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Translations
the act of mobilizing
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marshalling of troops and national resources in preparation for war
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readying of troops
geology
genitics
Further reading
- “mobilization”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “mobilization”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “mobilize”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “mobilization”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “mobilization”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- mobilize in Britannica Dictionary
- “mobilization” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.