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to remobilize

to remobilize

1 6.8
To make something move or work again after a pause
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈmoʊbəˌlaɪz/
  • US
translation icon : removilizar
  • In response to the hurricane, the organization decided to remobilize volunteers to provide aid in the disaster-stricken areas.

Examples

  • The activation and maintenance of change require the family to remobilize its strengths to initiate change, stabilize itself after the changes are made, and reinforce itself to maintain these changes.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Third-space fluids are remobilized to the vascular system, and the patient is in a relative state of fluid overload as free water is being retained.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Remobilizing idle resources takes time and behaves like a supply shock.

    Blog text (21)
  • These patriotic lithographs of Epinal would also be remobilized in the early days of the Great War to help raise public morale.

    Academic text (2013)
  • It also asked whether those movements could remobilize or find a new way to represent working-class women and make Brazilian democracy more responsive to their needs.

    Academic text (1999)
  • "In an abrupt double-take, the plot remobilizes its energies, reassembles its parts, and moves rapidly into the middle space of the story.

    Academic text (1996)
  • However, under anoxic conditions, the phosphorus may be remobilized into the water column, thus aggravating the eutrophication (Lampert and Sommer 1997).

    Academic text (2000)
  • But, as I show in the article, instead of weakening the women's movement overall, the relative marginalization of one segment of the movement from the emerging gender policy networks is having the effect of remobilizing popular sector, rural, and indigenous women around a women's rights agenda that also focuses on class and ethnicity.

    Academic text (2003)
  • After the sudden storm, the team had to remobilize their resources to assist the affected families.

  • The government plans to remobilize the local healthcare workers to combat the rising number of flu cases this winter.

Synonyms

to revitalize
vsto remobilize
  • US
45 4.8

To give new life and energy to something

focuses on enabling movement or preparing for action after a pause
to reactivate
vsto remobilize
41 4.3

To make something work again after it stopped

organizes or enables movement or use after a pause
to reestablish
vsto remobilize
37 4.3

To bring back something that stopped or was lost

focuses on making ready for movement or use after an interruption
to reinitiate
vsto remobilize
1 5.9

To start a process or system again after it stopped

focuses on enabling movement or use again rather than only restarting processes
to recommission
vsto remobilize
  • Specialized
1 6.6

To put a ship, building, or machine back into use after being inactive

prepares or organizes for movement or action after a pause

Antonyms

21 6.0

To stop movement or action

How Active

to redeploy
16 6.0
to remobilize
  • US
1 6.8
to reactivate
41 4.3
to relaunch
7 3.9
to reorganize
43 3.4

Surface Forms

remobilize infinitive
remobilized past participle
remobilizing present participle
remobilizes third person singular

Morphology

remobilize = mobilize (transparent) = re + mobil + ize

The meaning is a straightforward repetition of the action in 'mobilize', namely to mobilize again after a pause or interruption.

Etymology

The word remobilize starts with re- meaning 'again' and the rest comes from mobilize, which is related to mobile meaning 'able to move'. So, to remobilize is to make something able to move or use again, or to get people and resources ready for action after a pause.