MOBILIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mobilization mean? 

• MOBILIZATION (noun)
  The noun MOBILIZATION has 2 senses:

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

2. act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action

  Familiarity information: MOBILIZATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOBILIZATION (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 ("mobilization" is a kind of...):

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

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

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)

Antonym:

demobilization (act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops)

Derivation:

mobilize (make ready for action or use)

mobilize (get ready for war)

mobilize (call to arms; of military personnel)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mobilisation; mobilization

Context example:

mobilization of the country's economic resources

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

assemblage; assembly; gathering (the social act of assembling)

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

economic mobilisation; economic mobilization (mobilization of the economy)

rallying (the act of mobilizing for a common purpose)

Derivation:

mobilize (make ready for action or use)

 Context examples 

Many dune fields around the world have undergone alternating periods of mobilization and stabilization in response to changes in winds and rainfall.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

This may induce the mobilization of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from the bone marrow into blood.

(CXCR4 Inhibitor POL6326, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in calcium mobilization.

(LPAR3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, PGG beta-glucan may induce hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) mobilization.

(PGG Beta-Glucan, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, inhibition of CXCR4 may induce mobilization of hematopoietic cells from the bone marrow into blood.

(CXCR4 Antagonist BL-8040, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally bioavailable inhibitor of CXC chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4) with receptor binding and hematopoietic stem cell-mobilization activities.

(CXCR4 Antagonist TG-0054, NCI Thesaurus)

When functioning properly, OTULIN regulates the development of new blood vessels and mobilization of cells and proteins to fight infection.

(Researchers discover otulipenia, a new inflammatory disease, NIH)

This gene is involved in the activation and mobilization of immune cells in response to inflammatory stimuli.

(CCRL2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in immune cell mobilization to promote pro-inflammatory responses; further, the gene plays a role in chemotaxis.

(CCR1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes lysophosphatidic acid receptor 3 protein, plays a role as a cellular receptor for lysophosphatidic acid and mediates lysophosphatidic acid-evoked calcium mobilization.

(LPAR3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)