mobilization

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mobilisation (non-Oxford British English, Commonwealth excluding Canada)

Etymology

From French mobilisation or mobilize +‎ -ation.

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Noun

mobilization (countable and uncountable, plural mobilizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

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?‎^[1]:
  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^[2]:
  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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the act of mobilizing

Finnish: mobilisaatio (fi), mobilisointi (fi)
Polish: aktywizacja (pl) 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), mobilisaatio (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)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: seferberî (ku) f
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

Latin: 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