1. To bring resources or people into action for a purpose.
2. To prepare or bring armed forces into active service.
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Words that belong together
- mobilize resources
- mobilize support
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The campaign mobilized support through existing networks.
The team mobilized resources after the need was established.
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Word forms
- Base
- mobilize
- Past tense
- mobilized
- Past participle
- mobilized
- Present participle
- mobilizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- mobilize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are mobilizing
- Present perfect
- have/has mobilized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been mobilizing
- Past
- mobilized
- Past continuous
- was/were mobilizing
- Past perfect
- had mobilized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been mobilizing
- Future
- will mobilize
- Future continuous
- will be mobilizing
- Future perfect
- will have mobilized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been mobilizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: mobilize; mobilizes; mobilized; mobilized; mobilizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: mobilizes.
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