transcription, транскрипция: [ moʊbɪlaɪz ]
( mobilizes, mobilizing, mobilized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'mobilise'
1.
If you mobilize support or mobilize people to do something, you succeed in encouraging people to take action, especially political action. If people mobilize , they prepare to take action.
The best hope is that we will mobilize international support and get down to action...
Faced with crisis, people mobilized.
VERB : V n , V
• mo‧bi‧li‧za‧tion
...the rapid mobilization of international opinion in support of the revolution.
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2.
If you mobilize resources, you start to use them or make them available for use.
If you could mobilize the resources, you could get it done.
VERB : V n
• mo‧bi‧li‧za‧tion
...the mobilisation of resources for education.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N of n
3.
If a country mobilizes , or mobilizes its armed forces, or if its armed forces mobilize , they are given orders to prepare for a conflict. ( JOURNALISM or MILITARY )
Sudan even threatened to mobilize in response to the ultimatums...
India is now in a better position to mobilise its forces...
VERB : V , V n
• mo‧bi‧li‧za‧tion
...a demand for full-scale mobilisation to defend the republic.
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