act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: " mobilization of the troops"

act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action; " mobilization of the country's economic resources"

The act of mobilizing.

The act of calling ( troops) into active service.

1. Making movable; restoring the power of motion in a joint. 2. The art of mobilizing; the starting of hitherto quiescent material on a round of physiological activity.

Act of mobilizing.

A. Philip Randolph: The Trumpet of Mobilization The leadership style of A. Philip Randolph differed from that of Washington, DuBois, and Garvey. – The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America by Norman Coombs

It is also announced that a decree ordering the mobilization of the Landwehr will be officially published the day after to- morrow. – The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas

Later developments showed that the sudden mobilization on the frontier of an army of tried veterans, ready if necessary, to fight another war, made the foreigners gasp. – The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher

Mobilization ordered throughout the Empire. – England and Germany by Emile Joseph Dillon

I have taken a good deal of responsibility in ordering this mobilization, but I am ready to answer for it if only you and those under you use the utmost care to avoid the difficulties which I have pointed out. – Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present by Various

We must organize the industrial mobilization as perfectly as the military mobilization. – Fighting France by Stephane Lauzanne

On the night of July 16th the Royal order for mobilization was issued, and when his Majesty arrived in Mayence fourteen days later, he found 300, 000 men assembled on the Rhine and beyond. – The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth, von Moltke

Mobilization of forces began in June, 1859. Cook, one of the original party, had spent the year in the region of Harper's Ferry. – The Anti-Slavery Crusade Volume 28 In The Chronicles Of America Series by Jesse Macy

It is the reserves who need an elaborate system of mobilization. – The Secrets of the German War Office by Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves

The acquirement and mobilization of mineral resources for military purposes was a vital necessity. – The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. Leith

There might just as well as not have been a million of them in Scotland, trained and hardy soldiers, organized and equipped as the Reserves of Switzerland are completely organized to- day and ready for instant mobilization. – Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by George Hebard Maxwell

There also exists a modified system of volunteers for one year who supply the bulk of officers required for the reserve upon mobilization. – Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

Mobilization was beginning before my eyes. – The Pentecost of Calamity by Owen Wister

8 The railway time- tables ceased to have a meaning after the first hour of mobilization. – The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs

The encampment, which obviously was temporary- perhaps a mobilization place- rang with the last minute preparations for departure. – The White Invaders by Raymond King Cummings

For forty years the nation has lived under the fear of invasion, a black cloud always more or less threatening on the frontier, and when the day of mobilization came every Frenchman knew instinctively what it meant- the long- expected fight for national existence. – The World Decision by Robert Herrick

Germany was aware, as subsequent facts have proved, that her own state of mobilization was very much further advanced than that of Russia. – America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

" Mobilization, sir, the call to arms. – The Woman of Mystery by Maurice Leblanc