Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To assemble, prepare, or put into active service.
- intransitive verb To assemble, marshal, or coordinate for a purpose.
- intransitive verb To become mobilized.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put in motion or in readiness for motion.
- In naval affairs, more rarely, to make corresponding preparation of a fleet or squadron for active service on a war footing.
- Milit., to prepare for motion or action; make ready for active operations, or for taking the field.
- Also spelled
mobilise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action.
- transitive verb To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make something
mobile . - verb transitive To
assemble troops and theirequipment in acoordinated fashion so as to be ready forwar . - verb intransitive To become made ready for war.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb call to arms; of military personnel
- verb cause to move around
- verb get ready for war
- verb make ready for action or use
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Examples
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He may have had a capability to do what we call mobilize and surge.
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He may have had a capability to do what we call mobilize and surge.
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This capacity to mobilize translates into a diversity of movements that are ready to take action when necessary, whether it's to hold Evo Morales' feet to the flames, or mobilize against the right and foreign corporations.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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Mr. Deripaska said Norilsk should sell its treasury shares, noncore assets and some overseas assets, which may "mobilize" as much as $6 billion.
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Peace Corps and he's here to talk about how volunteers kind of mobilize, and how so many local governments and nongovernment agencies all get involved at a time like this.
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Unrefined, unprocessed vegetable oils "mobilize" saturated fats from meat and dairy products and help protect the arteries.
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LEVEAUX-HALEY: There might be some need to kind of mobilize the Latino vote or galvanize the Latinos around some type of issue.
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LEVEAUX-HALEY: There might be some need to kind of mobilize the Latino vote or galvanize Latinos around some type of issue.
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LEVEAUX-HALEY: There might be some need to kind of mobilize the Latino vote or galvanize the Latinos around some type of issue.
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Great introduction, I liked the "mobilize" advice, got a little lost around the Cindy Sheehan chapter, glad you wrote it, jealous because people are gonna buy your book like hotcakes but nobody will buy mine!
Dear Kos, thanks for your Book Expo speech -- and WAS Sadr City just flattened? Or not? 2008
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