MOBILIZATION

Mobilization

Mobilization is the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war. The word mobilization was first used, in a military context, in order to describe the preparation of the Russian army during the 1850s and 1860s. Mobilization theories and techniques have continuously changed since then. The opposite of mobilization is demobilization.

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mobilization

Noun

  1. The act of mobilizing
  2. The marshalling of troops and national resources in preparation for war.
  3. The process by which the armed forces of a nation are brought to a state of readiness for a conflict.
  4. The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place
  5. The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another


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