mobilizer
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈmoʊbɪˌlaɪzər/
- US
:
movilizador
- A skilled mobilizer inspired the community to participate in the local clean-up event.
- political mobilizers
Examples
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Therefore, the political mobilizers would be deferential to the traditional authorities and respect local customs and traditions.
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New technologies not only serve to share information, but they increasingly serve as conveners and mobilizers.
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What made the mobilizers' message credible to those who followed their lead?
Academic text (1999) -
In both instances, the essential contribution and attraction of the mobilizer's message was that it offered, to those who accepted it, a credible promise of both change and resistance to change.
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In Egypt, social consciousness, religious inspiration, and militancy were united in the mobilizers of the Gama'a al-Islamiyya.
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Political mobilizers would precede Frelimo cadres into Portuguese-controlled areas by as much as one year.
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The unfolding of this perspective provided fertile ground for activist mobilizers who held state authorities responsible for the plight of the marginalized.
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Both in Upper Egypt and Chiapas, these mobilizers injected a new emphasis on social justice into prevailing religious belief systems and linked the new interpretation to "tree" national values.
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Notables exercised influence as organizational spokesmen and mobilizers rather than as mediators whose contacts and connections facilitate the resolution of issues.
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Globalizing economic, political, and cultural forces merged with the impact of historically derived conditions and the activism of mobilizers, tying local realities in Chiapas and Upper Egypt to wider world currents.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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6.5
A person who stirs up strong public feelings for political change
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7.2
A person who leads and inspires others in a cause
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9.9
A person who strongly encourages others to act
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5.8
A person who encourages people and makes them want to act
A person who makes others want to act and change things
A person who strongly encourages people to act, often for moral or religious reasons
Antonyms
How Persuasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mobilizer comes from the root mobil- and the old Latin word mobilis, which means 'movable' or 'able to move'. In people terms, to 'mobilize' is to get people to 'move' into action, so a mobilizer is someone who gets others moving for a cause.