MOBILIZATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("mobilization" is a kind of...):

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

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

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

conscription; draft; muster; selective service (compulsory military service)

remilitarisation; remilitarization (the act of militarizing again)

Antonym:

demobilization (act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops)

Derivation:

mobilize (make ready for action or use)

mobilize (get ready for war)

mobilize (call to arms; of military personnel)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action

Example:

mobilization of the country's economic resources

Synonyms:

mobilisation; mobilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

assemblage; assembly; gathering (the social act of assembling)

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

economic mobilisation; economic mobilization (mobilization of the economy)

rallying (the act of mobilizing for a common purpose)

Derivation:

mobilize (make ready for action or use)

Credits

Context examples:

In the liver, doxercalciferol is converted to its biologically active vitamin D metabolites, which control the intestinal absorption of dietary calcium, the tubular reabsorption of calcium by the kidney and, in conjunction with parathyroid hormone (PTH), the mobilization of calcium from the skeleton.

(Doxercalciferol, NCI Thesaurus)

In the Kalahari, dune mobilization is ongoing, especially in overgrazed areas close to boreholes and villages, D'Odorico and Okin have found.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

CXCR4 inhibitor TG-0054 binds to the chemokine receptor CXCR4, thereby preventing the binding of stromal derived factor-1 (SDF-1 or CXCL12) to the CXCR4 receptor and subsequent receptor activation; this may induce the mobilization of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from the bone marrow into blood.