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mo⋅bi⋅lize

  [moh-buh-lahyz] verb, -lized, -liz⋅ing.
Use mobilize in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
2. to organize or adapt (industries, transportation facilities, etc.) for service to the government in time of war.
3. to marshal, bring together, prepare (power, force, wealth, etc.) for action, esp. of a vigorous nature: to mobilize one's energy.
4. to increase or bring to a full stage of development: to mobilize one's anger.
–verb (used without object)
5. to be or become assembled, organized, etc., as for war: to mobilize for action.
Also, especially British, mo⋅bi⋅lise.

Origin:
1830–40; back formation from mobilization. See mobile, -ization

Related forms:
mo⋅bi⋅liz⋅a⋅ble, adjective
mo⋅bi⋅li⋅za⋅tion, noun
mo⋅bi⋅liz⋅er, noun
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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 make mobile or capable of movement.

    1. To assemble, prepare, or put into operation for or as if for war: mobilize troops; mobilize the snowplows.

    2. To assemble, marshal, or coordinate for a purpose: mobilized the country's economic resources.

v.   intr.
To become prepared for or as if for war.
mo'bi·li·za'tion (-lĭ-zā'shən) n.
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Word Origin & History

mobilize 
1838, from Fr. mobiliser, from mobile "movable" (see mobile). Military sense of "call up troops" first attested 1853.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: mo·bi·lize
Variant: also British mo·bi·lise /'mO-b&-"lIz/
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -lized also British -lised; -liz·ing also British -lis·ing
transitive senses
1 : to put into movement or circulation : make mobile; specifically : to release (something stored in the body) for body use mobilizes its antibodies>
2 : to assemble(as resources) and make ready for use mobilizes the bodily resources as a means of preparing for fight or flight —H. G. Armstrong>
3 : to separate (an organ or part) from associated structures so as to make more accessible for operative procedures
4 : to develop to a state of acute activitymobilize hostile feelings toward others —Abram Kardiner> mobilize intransitive senses
: to undergo mobilization : assemble and organize for action —mo·bi·liz·able also British mo·bi·lis·able /'mO-b&-"lI-z&-b&l/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

mobilize mo·bi·lize (mō'bə-līz')
v. mo·bi·lized, mo·bi·liz·ing, mo·bi·liz·es

  1. To make mobile or capable of movement.

  2. To restore the power of motion to a joint.

  3. To release into the body, as glycogen from the liver.

mo'bi·li·za'tion (-lĭ-zā'shən) n.

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