Mobilization

Quick meaning: Mobilization is a noun meaning The act of mobilizing.

Meaning

The act of mobilizing.

More Meanings

1. The marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for an action.
2. (geology) The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place.
3. (genetics) The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another.

Example Sentences

a national mobilization to fight climate change

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a key piece of legislation overhauling the country’s mobilization rules.

It's produced tremendous activism and backlash: there's been all sorts of demonstrations and mobilizations in civil society, there's been examples from the people from the Administration being heckled in a restaurant or not served in a restaurant, there's been a growing crescendo of conversation about what that means.

Word Forms

• mobilizations
• mobilisation

Synonyms for mobilization

Depending on context, synonyms include marshaling, mobilisation, militarization, militarisation.

Antonyms for mobilization

Common opposites include demobilization, immobilization, demobilisation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mobilisation, militarisation, militarization, marshaling, mobilized, mobilise.

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