mobilization

• mobilisation (Commonwealth excluding Canada)

From French mobilisation or mobilize +‎ -ation.

mobilization (countable and uncountable, plural mobilizations)

1. The act of mobilizing.

   a national mobilization to fight climate change

   • 2018 June 26, Chris Hayes, quotee, “How bad is it, really? Ezra Klein evaluates life in the Trump era: transcript & podcast”, in Why Is This Happening?‎^[1]:

     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.

2. The marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for an action.
   • 2024 April 16, Olga Voitovych, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Christian Edwards, “Zelensky signs law overhauling Ukraine’s mobilization rules”, in CNN‎^[2]:

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

3. (geology) The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place.
4. (genetics) The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another.

• demobilization
• immobilization

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• “mobilization”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “mobilize”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “mobilization”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “mobilization”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• mobilize in Britannica Dictionary
• “mobilization” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.