mobilization

English

Alternative forms

• Commonwealth: mobilisation

Etymology

From French mobilisation

Noun

mobilization (countable and uncountable, plural mobilizations)

1. The act of mobilizing
2. The marshalling of troops and national resources in preparation for war.
3. The process by which the armed forces of a nation are brought to a state of readiness for a conflict.
4. (geology) The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place
5. (genetics) The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another

Related terms

• mobile
• mobility

• mobilize
• move

Translations

marshalling of troops and national resources in preparation for war

• Armenian: զորահավաք (hy) (zorahavakʿ)
• Belarusian: мабіліза́цыя f (mabilizácyja)
• Bulgarian: мобилиза́ция (bg) f (mobilizácija)
• Catalan: mobilització
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動員 (zh), 动员 (zh) (dòngyuán)

• Czech: mobilizace f
• Finnish: liikekannallepano (fi)
• French: mobilisation (fr) f
• German: Mobilmachung (de) f
• Interlingua: mobilisation
• Italian: mobilitazione (it) f

• Japanese: 動員 (ja) (どういん, dōin)
• Korean: 동원 (ko) (dong-won)
• Norman: mobilisâtion f
• Persian: بسیج‎ (fa) (basij)
• Polish: mobilizacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: mobilização (pt) f
• Romanian: mobilizare (ro) f
• Russian: мобилиза́ция (ru) f (mobilizácija)
• Spanish: movilización
• Swedish: mobilisering c
• Turkish: seferberlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: мобіліза́ція f (mobilizácija)