mobilization
🇺🇸 /ˌmoʊbələˈzeɪʃən/
📖 Definitions
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noun
The act of assembling and organizing troops, resources, or equipment for active military service or action.; The act of bringing resources, people, or support into active use for a particular purpose or cause.; In medicine, the process of making a fixed or immobile body part capable of movement, or the release of a substance from a fixed state.
🔗 Details
Word forms
countable / uncountable
Plural: mobilizations
Collocations
general mobilizationmass mobilizationmobilization of resourcesmobilization of troopsmobilization effortmobilization plan
Derivatives
mobilizemobilisemobilizerdemobilizationremobilizationmobilityimmobilemobilizable
Synonyms
rallyingassemblydeploymentmusteractivationmarshaling
Antonyms
demobilizationdispersal
Commonly confused
mobilisation
EN: 'Mobilisation' is the British English spelling; 'mobilization' is the American English spelling. Both are correct in their respective varieties.
demobilization
EN: 'Demobilization' is the opposite process—disbanding or standing down forces rather than assembling them.
Spelling tips
EN: American English uses 'z' (mobilization); British English commonly uses 's' (mobilisation). Do not mix the two conventions within a single text.
💬 Examples
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The country's rapid mobilization of its armed forces surprised its neighbors.
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The mobilization of public opinion was crucial to passing the environmental legislation.
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Physical therapy focused on the mobilization of the patient's stiffened joints.