The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mobilize \Mob"i*lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mobilized; p. pr. & vb. n. Mobilizing.] [F. mobiliser.]
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To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action; as, to mobilize volunteers for the election campaign.
Syn: mobilise, marshal.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of mobilize English)
Usage examples of "mobilizing".
My guess is that the Geeks, imagining it to be their own idea, are mobilizing, drilling and turning out weapons as fast as they can.
Baghdad reacted immediately, mobilizing the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard, dispersing the army, and implementing emergency security measures across the country.
Soon, larger cells called macro phages answered the chemical call, mobilizing themselves from lymph nodes and the bone marrow.
To back up these threats, Saddam began mobilizing Republican Guard divisions on October 2 and sending them south to the border with Kuwait.
In each open office, men leaned over computer terminals and keyboards, while in the Primary Command Center, wall-sized monitors displayed electronic maps of all the former Union, with color-coded symbols marking the units mobilizing now on one side or the other from Belarus to the Far East.
So is the thought of the Redeemer on the Cross, the Cow who Jumped Over the Moon, the lost continent of Mu, the Gross National Product, the Square Root of Minus One, and anything else capable of mobilizing emotional energy.
Of the remaining patients, as many as possible were being discharged to their homes, while others, for whom hospital care was still essential, were being transferred to other institutions in and around Burlington, now mobilizing their own facilities to meet the emergency influx from Three Counties.
But his mental confusion and the weariness it produced obfuscated, so that while he was aware of the passage of time and of forces mobilizing against him, still he felt incapable of rising above and proceeding beyond his personal miasma.
The nonproducers mobilizing them included chiefs, priests, bureaucrats, and warriors.
Yet, every year the residents of Moose County prepared for war: digging in, mobilizing snowplows and blowers, enlisting snowfighters, deploying troops of volunteers, disseminating propaganda, and stockpiling supplies.