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mobilise

mobilise \mobilise\ n. 1. Mobilize. [Chiefly Brit.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mobilise

chiefly British English spelling of mobilize; for suffix, see -ize. Related: Mobilised; mobilising.

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mobilise

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.

WordNet
mobilise
  1. v. call to arms; of military personnel [syn: call up, mobilize, rally] [ant: demobilize]

  2. get ready for war [syn: mobilize] [ant: demobilize, demobilize]

  3. make ready for action or use; "marshal resources" [syn: mobilize, marshal, summon]

  4. cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" [syn: mobilize, circulate]

Wikipedia
Mobilise

Mobilise is a set of Christian conferences, weekend retreats and resources for students and twenties, run by the Newfrontiers family of churches in the UK.

Usage examples of "mobilise".

Unfortunately, as Channa pointed out to Joran, the Nestar alliances were with minor factions too widely scattered to mobilise quickly or with any degree of secrecy.

Amblecope, the man with the restless, prominent eyes and the mouth ready mobilised for conversational openings, had planted himself in a neighbouring arm-chair.

All the blood in his body seemed to have mobilised in one concentrated blush, and an agony of abasement, worse than a myriad mice, crept up and down over his soul.

We need a leadership capable of mobilising the colossal power of the labour movement to put an end to capitalism and Stalinism once and for all - and with it the system that gave birth to the monstrous fascist regimes of the inter-war period.

Apart from a few daubed storefronts and an uprooted japonica sapling down the mall, the mob had caused little damage, but what they failed to see was the troop of Girardieau militia mobilising at the far end of the mall.

And I can mobilise this city, raise an army of toys and lead them to destroy the evil twin.

Every member of the unit appeared to have been mobilised, and the cutter and the two launches surged and jockeyed around the landing jetty.

But the Germans in Holstein were very loud in their abuse of the Danes and the Danes in Schleswig made a great ado of their Danishness, and all Europe was discussing the problem and German Mannerchors and Turnvereins listened to sentimental speeches about the ``lost brethren'' and the different chancelleries were trying to discover what it was all about, when Prussia mobilised her armies to ``save the lost provinces.