mobilization
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Commonwealth: mobilisation
Etymology[edit]
From French mobilisation or mobilize + -ation.
Noun[edit]
mobilization (countable and uncountable, plural mobilizations)
- The act of mobilizing.
- a national mobilization to fight climate change
- The marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for an action.
- (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.
Antonyms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
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[edit]
- “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.