mobilization
English
Alternative forms
- Commonwealth: mobilisation
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
- The marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for a 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
- demobilization
- immobilization
Related terms
- mobile
- mobility
- mobilize
- move
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 at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “mobilization”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “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 the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- mobilize in Britannica Dictionary
- “mobilization” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.