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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
mo·bi·lize       [moh-buh-lahyz] Pronunciation Key verb, -lized, -liz·ing.
–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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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
mo·bi·lize       (mō'bə-līz')  Pronunciation Key 
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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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
mobilize

verb
1. make ready for action or use; "marshal resources" 
2. call to arms; of military personnel [syn: call up] [ant: demobilise] 
3. get ready for war [ant: demob] 
4. cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Mobilize

Mob"i*lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mobilized; p. pr. & vb. n. Mobilizing.] [F. mobiliser.] To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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