to mobilize
- verb
- /ˈmoʊbɪlaɪz/
- After the devastating event, the city quickly had to mobilize emergency services and support teams for the affected communities.
- mobilize support
- mobilize resources
- mobilize the community
And when you constantly keep that engaged and mobilized membership, you're ready to strike.
- And when you constantly keep that engaged and mobilized membership, you're ready to strike.
- And she will mobilize a very young generation.
- We have been very impressed by the way American people have mobilized and have pushed back.
- But it's Kansas that mobilized the insurrection of thought for John Brown.
- Insecurity is what mobilizes our economies, our politics, and our commerce.
- One side says you go with the election, you, you, you mobilize the voter.
- But at the same time, they invite class action suits and protests and explicitly mobilize the K St.
- He didn't even know he got the Riders rally mobilized.
- How could it, how could it get so crazy that we even have to be mobilizing to stop this level of crazy?
- So there was a big fight over this, and the black delegates who were there mobilized the caucus.
- But they have enough people and enough resources and enough capability to mobilize them to do it.
- And there's few forces as as with as much mobilizing potential as threat.
- Now, that means that there are people around you, around all of us that can be mobilized into that role of flying monkey.
Examples
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But it was important in terms of deflecting opposition and mobilizing support for SAP policies.
Academic text (1991) -
Increasingly, various kinds of nongovernmental organizations are able to mobilize the population at a grassroots level.
Academic text (1999) -
But we did want to do something to mobilize everyone to, to vote.
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So could they still mobilize like this again?
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And she will mobilize a very young generation.
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But then I know how it happens, but what can we do to mobilize young people to get their rights back?
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Yes, I will mobilize immediately.
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We can no longer discuss what we must do; we must mobilize and do it.
Academic text (2012) -
We'll be successful with crime control when we are able to mobilize all segments of New York in support of it.
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The U.S. government is now leading an effort to mobilize search and rescue teams to evacuate people from the path of the storm.
Synonyms
Arrange people, things, and activities so they work well
To move and use people or equipment for a specific job
Find the strength or courage to do something difficult
Make soldiers and weapons stronger before a fight
To arrange people or resources for a purpose
Antonyms
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mobilize comes from the Latin word mobilis meaning 'movable' and is the same root as the everyday word mobile. So to mobilize people or resources is to organize them and put them into action to reach a goal.