MILITARIZATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:

Example:

mobilization of the troops

Synonyms:

militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("militarization" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "militarization"):

armament; arming; equipping (the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war)

remilitarisation; remilitarization (the act of militarizing again)

Derivation:

militarize (adopt for military use)

militarize (lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force)