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Mobilized

Mobilize \Mob"i*lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mobilized; p. pr. & vb. n. Mobilizing.] [F. mobiliser.]

  1. To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action; as, to mobilize volunteers for the election campaign.

    Syn: mobilise, marshal.

  2. Specifically: To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps; as, to mobilize the National Guard.

    Syn: mobilise, militarize, militarise.

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mobilized
  1. Subject to mobilization v

  2. (en-past of: mobilize)

Usage examples of "mobilized".

Populist movement enticed into the Democratic party, Bryan, the Democratic candidate, was defeated by William McKinley, for whom the corporations and the press mobilized, in the first massive use of money in an election campaign.

National Guard infantrymen was mobilized by Edwin Kincaid, the governor of Ohio, to protect the factory.

The serials pricing crisis which has long alarmed and mobilized librarians is starting to alarm and mobilize university administrators and faculty.

Nevertheless, the presence of the threat, coupled with the specter of past plagues, mobilized preventive measures all over the peninsula.

Jesamine Flowers' fanbase had mobilized itself through the singer's websites and turned out in force, with more arriving every hour as fresh coachloads arrived from other cities.

Two more had been lost before rescue could be mobilized and one victim had relayed an alien invitation to come in from the cold of interplanetary space.

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.

Men who had been mobilized by the board of the corporation Max Hartman had helped set up.

By the time any berserker was near enough to strike, the machines of close-in defense were ready, the whole planetoid already shivering with the long-stored energies now being mobilized.

In any case, those are the first weapons to be mobilized on Mars, and they came complete with a Russian military advisor, Major Maksim Oeljanov—.

In any case, those are the first weapons to be mobilized on Mars, and they came complete with a Russian military advisor, Major Maksim Oeljanovyou'll want to read the dossier they've got on him, too.

Greenpeace protested, but by the time they mobilized their mosquito fleet, the whales had been blasted to blubbery smithereens by navy gunners.

It would take a fully mobilized citizenry to field the much larger army Rus is talking about building, and, frankly, even that would be none too heavy a force to go up against someone as tough as the main Boman horde sounds to be.

While the Terran Allied Command banged heads with Laramites Parliament, the LDFs commander-in-chief, Admiral Carla American Horse, told them ALL to torque off and mobilized every ship that would fly.

His whole autonomic system is as fully mobilized as it might be in an exciting moment of waking life.