MILITARIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does militarization mean? 

• MILITARIZATION (noun)
  The noun MILITARIZATION has 1 sense:

1. act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:

  Familiarity information: MILITARIZATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization

Context example:

mobilization of the troops

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

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

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

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)

Derivation:

militarize (adopt for military use)

militarize (lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force)