Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Ready for action ", 8 letters:
mobilize

Alternative clues for the word mobilize

Word definitions for mobilize in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. make ready for action or use; "marshal resources" [syn: mobilise , marshal , summon ] call to arms; of military personnel [syn: call up , mobilise , rally ] [ant: demobilize ] get ready for war [syn: mobilise ] [ant: demobilize , demobilize ] cause to ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mobilize may refer to: Mobilize (Grant-Lee Phillips album) , 2001 Mobilize (Anti-Flag album) , 2002 Mobilization , the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war Joint mobilization , a type of passive movement of a skeletal joint. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make something mobile. 2 (context transitive English) To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war. 3 (context intransitive English) To become made ready for war.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES mobilize support (= get people to support something in an active way ) ▪ Part of their mission was to mobilize popular support for Franco. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN group ▪ Subordinate groups mobilize to attain ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1833 in the military sense; 1838 as "render capable of movement, bring into circulation," from French mobiliser , from mobile "movable" (see mobile ). Related: Mobilized ; mobilizing .

Usage examples of mobilize.

Every military unit in and around Hamburg was mobilized and at least 35,000 men were soon hard at work in the bombed city.

Just as glucagon mobilizes the glycogen reservoir in the liver, bringing about its breakdown to glucose, which pours into the blood, so the parathyroid hormone mobilizes the calcium stores in bone, bringing about its breakdown to calcium ions in solution, which pours into the blood.

And when those efforts begin to produce results, the innovator has to be ready to mobilize resources massively.

And as for a Bethlarii attack after all this time, the Duke would have been mobilizing the army, not pacing anxiously to and fro.

Perhaps before it is over, the outer forces will have mobilized the swarming, pullulating masses of China and India against the body of the Western Civilization.

The problem of imperial administration is thus to manage this process of integration and therefore to pacify, mobilize, and control the separated and segmented social forces.

The principalities are mobilizing, and agents of the Virga Home Guard have been seen nosing around, even here.

Once trapped in the node, the bacterium is handled by antibodies or, if that fails, by white cells mobilized for battle.

The Saudis mobilized their armed forces, began training volunteers, broke off diplomatic relations with Britain and France, banned the refueling of their ships in Saudi ports, and embargoed oil shipments to both countries.

The hydronium ions came in a sudden wave, catching the dividing cells off-guard Buffer systems were mobilized to neutralize some of the initial reactive particles, but there were too many to combat.

Though they were undoubtedly a minority in the relentlessness of their revolutionary convictions, the militants were capable, on days of crisis, of mobilizing armed crowds of tens of thousands.

Thanks to the brief warning, most of the settled systems managed to mobilize to meet the Shardies attack.

General Aguinaldo had mobilized his entire division and, with help from the army, a thorough search and surveillance operation encompassing all the territory within a hundred-kilometer radius of Mount Amethyst was mounted.

TANU strained to mobilize Tanzanians behind the Arusha principles, this homespun socialist vision evoked a spontaneous outpouring of enthusiasm from the outside.

Given the level of extreme hostility between the state and federal governments, Falkner guessed that his outfit might be ordered away from Oxford to remove them from any federal efforts to force James Meredith into the university, and to prevent any unauthorized attempts by state officials to mobilize the Guard to support Barnett instead.