mobilization

English

Alternative forms

• Commonwealth: mobilisation

Etymology

From French mobilisation or mobilize +‎ -ation.

Noun

mobilization (countable and uncountable, plural mobilizations)

1. The act of mobilizing.

   a national mobilization to fight climate change

2. The marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for an action.
3. (geology) The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place.
4. (genetics) The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another.

Antonyms

• demobilization
• immobilization

Related terms

• mobile
• mobility
• mobilize
• move

Translations

the act of mobilizing

• Polish: aktywizacja f

marshalling of troops and national resources in preparation for war

• Albanian: mobilizim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَعْبِئَة f (taʕbiʔa), تَجْنِيد m (tajnīd), النَّفِير الْعَامّ m (an-nafīr al-ʕāmm)
• Armenian: զորահավաք (hy) (zorahavakʻ)
• Azerbaijani: səfərbərlik
• Belarusian: мабіліза́цыя f (mabilizácyja)
• Bulgarian: мобилиза́ция (bg) f (mobilizácija)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: mobilització
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動員／动员 (zh) (dòngyuán)

• Czech: mobilizace (cs) f
• Danish: mobilisering (da) c
• Dutch: mobilisatie (nl) f
• Estonian: mobilisatsioon (et)
• Finnish: liikekannallepano (fi)
• French: mobilisation (fr) f
• Galician: mobilización (gl) f
• Georgian: მობილიზაცია (mobilizacia)
• German: Mobilmachung (de) f, Mobilisierung (de) f
• Greek: επιστράτευση (el) f (epistrátefsi), κινητοποίηση (el) f (kinitopoíisi)
• Hungarian: mozgósítás (hu)
• Interlingua: mobilisation
• Italian: mobilitazione (it) f
• Japanese: 動員 (ja) (どういん, dōin)
• Kazakh: мобилизация (mobilizasiä)
• Korean: 동원(動員) (ko) (dong'won)
• Kyrgyz: мобилизация (mobilizatsiya)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: mobilizācija f
• Lithuanian: mobilizacija f
• Luxembourgish: Mobiliséierung f
• Macedonian: мобилизација f (mobilizacija)
• Norman: mobilisâtion f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mobilisering m

• Occitan: mobilizacion (oc) f
• Persian: بسیج (fa) (basij)
• Polish: mobilizacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: mobilização (pt) f
• Romanian: mobilizare (ro) f
• Russian: мобилиза́ция (ru) f (mobilizácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мобилиза́ција f

  Roman: mobilizácija (sh) f

• Slovak: mobilizácia f
• Slovene: mobilizacija f
• Spanish: movilización
• Swedish: mobilisering (sv) c
• Tajik: сафарбарӣ (safarbari), мобилизатсия (mobilizatsiya), басиҷ (basij)
• Thai: การระดม (th) (gaan-rá-dom)
• Turkish: seferberlik (tr)
• Turkmen: mobilizasiýa
• Ukrainian: мобіліза́ція f (mobilizácija)
• Uzbek: safarbarlik (uz), mobilizatsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự động viên (vi)

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.