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/mˈoʊbəlˌaɪz/ Listen

verb

Mobilize v. t. (past & past part. mobilized; pres. part. mobilizing)

To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action; as, to mobilize volunteers for the election campaign.

Synonyms: mobilise, marshal.

Specifically: To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps; as, to mobilize the National Guard.

Synonyms: mobilise, militarize, militarise.

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Etymology of 'Mobilize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mobilize" Quotes from Famous Books

... her army, we shall at once mobilize ours, and then there will be a general war, a war that will set ablaze all Central Europe and even the Balkan peninsula, for the Rumanians, Greeks, Bulgarians, and Turks will not be able to resist the ...

— World's War Events, Vol. I • Various

... when his whole fate hung in the balance, there came from the stage that devastating high note which is the sign that the solo is over and that the chorus are now about to mobilize. As if drawn by some magnetic power, she suddenly receded from him, and went ...

— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... been so advertised into patriotism. In England some expert had done it for Kitchener's Army. But it was easier to recruit England, with 30 millions of people within the area of our maritime provinces, than to mobilize billions from a ...

— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

... qualitative, of the military forces which ought to be kept ready. It showed the evils of excessive centralization. For an expenditure as great as that of a Continental military Power the War Office maintained a regular army, as to which it was doubtful whether it could mobilize, in a condition to take the field, a single army corps. The militia was imperfectly officered. The volunteer force was of unequal quality, and the mass of its officers inadequately trained for war. It was without field artillery, and the guns with which in case of ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... financial credit of the city at stake, the good citizens rushed to the rescue, and soon the Mayor was able to mobilize a posse of 1,000 willing men to assist the police in maintaining order, but rioting still continued in different sections of the city. Colored men and women were beaten, chased and shot whenever they made their appearance upon the street. Late in the night a most despicable ...

— Mob Rule in New Orleans • Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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