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verb
Mobilize  v. t.  (past & past part. mobilized; pres. part. mobilizing)  
1.
To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action; as, to mobilize volunteers for the election campaign.
Synonyms: mobilise, marshal.
2.
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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"Mobilize" Quotes from Famous Books



... League, which publishes these reports on women in industry, is not advocating Birth Control education, but is aiming "to awaken responsibility for conditions under which goods are produced, and through investigation, education and legislation, to mobilize public opinion in behalf of enlightened standards for workers and honest products for all." Nevertheless, in Miss Agnes de Lima's report of conditions in Passaic, New Jersey, we find the same tale of penalized, prostrate motherhood, bearing ...
— The Pivot of Civilization • Margaret Sanger

... known as "the Russian Scare" took place in Australia. Our Government instructed the acting Commandant, Major Jervois, to mobilize our military forces and to take up their war positions without delay. They further gave instructions to make a final selection of the site for the construction of the Fort near Glenelg, the immediate preparation of the plans, and the acquisition of the land required. A cable ...
— The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon • Jose Maria Gordon

... continuity of comprehensive planning and management, the report recognizes the need to mobilize the skills and authorities of all levels of government and support therefore by alert and informed citizens and citizen groups. The Governors of the Basin States and the District of Columbia have proposed ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... you can awaken this force in every soul. If you are an employer, perhaps only a few of all your employees can be made to understand. But this much is certain,—in every man or woman in whom you can loose the power of this invisible something, you will mobilize a force, not only for his or her good, but for the good and perhaps the very salvation ...
— Fundamentals of Prosperity - What They Are and Whence They Come • Roger W. Babson

... (1) move, movement, removal, remote, promote, promotion, motion, motive, emotion, commotion, motor, locomotive, mob, mobilize, automobile, moment; (2) immovable, motivate, locomotor ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... Caliber—slipped off my boots, tippytoed down the back stairs like a Barred Rock cat, oozed in by the side door—and here I be! I overheard their pleasant little plan to do you. I meant to do the big rescue act, but you mobilize too quick for me. All the same, maybe it's as well I chipped in, because—take a look at them cartridges in your gun, will you? Your own gun—the one they ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes



Words linked to "Mobilize" :   garner, summon, militarize, collect, call up, rally, mobilise, militarise, move, mobilization, call, send for, displace, circulate, marshal, demobilise, demobilize, pull together



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