mobilization

What it means

1. BritishEnglishOxfordUScountableuncountableThe act of mobilizing.

   a national mobilization to fight climate change

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   It's produced tremendous activism and backlash: there's been all sorts of demonstrations and mobilizations in civil society, there's been examples from the people from the Administration being heckled in a restaurant or not served in a restaurant, there's been a growing crescendo of conversation about what that means.

   2018 June 26, Chris Hayes, quotee, “How bad is it, really? Ezra Klein evaluates life in the Trump era: transcript & podcast”, in Why Is This Happening?

2. BritishEnglishOxfordUScountableuncountableThe marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for an action.

   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a key piece of legislation overhauling the country’s mobilization rules.

   2024 April 16, Olga Voitovych, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Christian Edwards, “Zelensky signs law overhauling Ukraine’s mobilization rules”, in CNN

3. BritishEnglishOxfordUScountableuncountablegeographyThe softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place.

In a sentence

a national mobilization to fight climate change

Where it comes from

1. Frenchmobilisation
2. Englishmobilization

From French mobilisation or mobilize + -ation.