| word | mobilize |
|---|---|
| definition | verb 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. The purpose of the journey is to mobilise public opinion on the controversial issue. Faced with crisis, people mobilized. ...the rapid mobilization of international opinion in support of the revolution. 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. ...the mobilisation of resources for education. If a country mobilizes, or mobilizes its armed forces, or if its armed forces mobilize, they are given orders to prepare for a conflict . Sudan even threatened to mobilize in response to the ultimatums. India is now in a better position to mobilise its forces. It means that their whole army will mobilize. ...a demand for full-scale mobilisation to defend the republic. |
| inflections | mobilizesmobilizingmobilizedmobilizationmobilizationmobilization |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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