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mo·bi·lize
(mō′bə-līz′)v. mo·bi·lized, mo·bi·liz·ing, mo·bi·liz·es
v.tr.
1. To assemble, prepare, or put into active service: mobilized the reserve troops.
2. To assemble, marshal, or coordinate for a purpose: mobilized young voters to support the progressive candidate; mobilized public outrage against the new law.
3. To release or make available, as cells or chemical substances: hormones that mobilize calcium from bones.
v.intr.
To become mobilized: troops mobilizing for war.
mo′bi·li·za′tion (-lĭ-zā′shən) n.
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mobilize
(ˈməʊbɪˌlaɪz) ormobilise
vb
1. (Military) to prepare for war or other emergency by organizing (national resources, the armed services, etc)
2. (tr) to organize for a purpose; marshal
3. (tr) to put into motion, circulation, or use
ˈmobiˌlizable, ˈmobiˌlisable adj
ˌmobiliˈzation, ˌmobiliˈsation n
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mo•bi•lize
(ˈmoʊ bəˌlaɪz)v. -lized, -liz•ing. v.t.
1. to assemble (armed forces) into readiness for active service: to mobilize troops.
2. to organize or adapt for service in time of war or other emergency: to mobilize industry.
3. to bring together or marshal for action or use: to mobilize support.
4. to make mobile; put into action.
v.i. 5. to be or become assembled, organized, etc.
[1830–40]
mo′bi•liz`a•ble, adj.
mo`bi•li•za′tion, n.
mo′bi•liz`er, n.
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mobilize
Past participle: mobilized
Gerund: mobilizing
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| Verb | 1. | mobilize - make ready for action or use; "marshal resources" gather, pull together, collect, garner - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| 2. |  mobilize - call to arms; of military personnelsend for, call - order, request, or command to come; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" demobilise, demobilize, inactivate - release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | |
| 3. |  mobilize - get ready for war militarise, militarize - lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force; "militarize Germany again after the war" | |
| 4. | mobilize - cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" |
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mobilize
verb
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mobilize
verb2. To assemble, equip, and train for war:
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Translations
mobilizovat
mobilisere
mozgósít
boîa út her, undirbúa stríî
mobilizovať
seferber etmek/olmak
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mobilize
[ˈməʊbɪlaɪz] mobilise (British) vi [troops, country] → se mobilisermob rule n (pejorative) → loi f de la populacemob violence n → violence f collective
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mobile
(ˈmoubail) adjective1. able to move. The van supplying country districts with library books is called a mobile library; The old lady is no longer mobile – she has to stay in bed all day.
2. able to move or be moved quickly or easily. Most of the furniture is very light and mobile.
3. (of someone's features or face) changing easily in expression.
moˈbility (-ˈbi-) nounˈmobilize, ˈmobilise (-bi-) verb
to make (especially troops, an army etc), or become, ready for use or action.
ˌmobiliˈzation, ˌmobiliˈsation (-bi-) nounmobile phone (also mobile) see cellular phone.
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mo·bi·lize
vr. movilizar; movilizarse, moverse.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
mobilize
vt movilizarEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.