mobilizationn.
/ˌməʊbᵻlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌməʊbl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌmoʊbələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌmoʊbəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. Economics and Finance. The action or process of bringing into circulation or realizing assets, capital, etc.; an instance of this. In Law: the conversion of real into personal property.
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society > trade and finance > money > circulation of money > [noun]
course1457
gang1488
walking1549
current1586
currence1651
currency1699
emission1729
running1788
mobilization1801
monetarization1967
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > change of one kind of property to another > change to personal or movable
conversion1827
chattelization1854
mobilization1879
1801 Ann. Reg. 1799 (Otridge ed.) i. 89/1 [France] A mobilization of the national debt; by which the real stock was reduced to one-third, payable in money, and the other two in bonds to be taken in payment for national lands.
1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany II. 249 Roman law..brought in the novel ideas of capital and the mobilisation of real property.
1930 Morning Post 7 Aug. 11/6 The credit mobilisation in London by the Australian banks to meet Governmental commitments..was approved.
1967 Economist 14 Oct. 120/1 A growing number of Labour MPs are sponsoring the case for government ‘mobilisation’ of the £3,200 million odd of foreign shares held by private British investors.
1990 R. Zimmerman Law of Obligations 116 A refined..land register provided the basis for what was called ‘mobilization of land value’... Landed property soon became overcharged with debts.
2.
a. Military. The action or process of preparing or organizing an army, fleet, etc., for war. Also in extended use.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > levying or mobilizing
hosting1422
levying1496
amass1567
uptakinga1578
levya1616
array1640
colonelling1663
mobilification1794
levy in mass1807
levée en masse1813
arrayal1818
mobilization1848
call-out1882
mobilizing1901
1848 Littell's Living Age 12 Aug. 331 Companies of republican volunteers are now being organized in the provinces, independently of the mobilization of an immense national guard.
1866 Church Times 14 Apr. Austria..demanding that the mobilization of the Prussian army be at once discontinued.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Feb. 7/1 A Mobilization Committee has been sitting at the War Office arranging for the despatch of troops to Suakin.
1899 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 6 370 The mobilization of an army of nearly a million experienced enumerators who should secure material for a scientific description of a population.
1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 312/2 The systematic mobilization of industry for the manufacture of munitions.
1937 W. Lippmann Good Society ii. v. 66 In the fascist version the purpose which actually organizes uniformity out of diversity is the total mobilization of a people for war.
1991 Navy News Nov. 29/2 In 1914 Crystal Palace Park was turned into a Royal Navy establishment,..its sole purpose being for the mobilisation of men of the RNVR.
b. gen. The action or process of assembling, organizing, and utilizing resources, etc., for a particular purpose.
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1902 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 8 178 Elements that are strong in themselves will..profit not less from this situation, and especially because it frequently spares them the real mobilization of power.
1928 Pacific Affairs 1 12 In its mobilization of the experience and equipment of all the nations for the solution of the problems of any one..the League of Nations constitutes the most impressive demonstration of international corporate action.
1974 R. Heilbroner Human Prospect iv. 114 The bond of peoplehood provides an indispensable agency for the mobilization of energies needed to break decisively with the past.
1991 C. Victor Health & Health Care in Later Life (BNC) 137 Care by the community is associated with the mobilization of resources from within the community (voluntary organizations and informal carers such as friends, neighbours and kin).
c. The process by which individuals or sections of society become active and organized towards social change. In Sociology and Politics: the process by which a passive collection of individuals in a society is transformed into an active group in the pursuit of common goals, or coerced into political participation by an authoritarian government. Cf. mobilist adj. 1, mobilize v.1 1.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > process > types of
cantonizing1611
diffusion1871
social differentiation1872
acculturation1880
feminization1901
mobilization1911
acculturalization1929
mimesis1934
schismogenesis1935
stimulus diffusion1940
transculturation1941
nativism1943
massification1946
villagization1954
1911 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 22 81 This growing passion for unity, to be brought about by the mobilization of social forces making for progress, is the natural outcome of the modern development of associated effort.
1924 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 30 278 Must not the creed of Calvinism..amount to the demand for a continuous state of social mobilization?
1947 Public Opinion Q. 11 19 The Soviet press is replete with such phrases as ‘the defense of the socialist fatherland,’ ‘the battle with reaction’,..‘the mobilization of the masses,’ etc.
1968 A. Etzioni Active Society xv. 393 Whatever the form of mobilization, whether it be direct or indirect, the process entails a shift of control and/or a shift of the usage of assets.
1972 R. H. Turner & L. M. Killian Collective Behavior (ed. 2) iv. 62/2 The crowding together of Negro Americans in the black ghettoes is a type of mobilization that has contributed to urban insurrections.
1987 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 38 25 Racism has only a very limited potential for political mobilization.
3. The action or process of moving or changing place. Cf. mobilize v.1 4.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > change > action resulting in
social actiona1746
mobilization1876
mobilizing1901
social mobilization1919
1876 Ladies' Repository Dec. 525 Previously all nations grew by conquering other nations and taking possession of their dwelling-place. Expatriation was a prerequisite of their own mobilization.
1890 Overland Monthly June 587/1 The general tendency of Industrialism is therefore towards..the mobilization of labor, with the Trade Union as a unit.
1915 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 20 607 Transportation and communication have effected..what I have called the ‘mobilization of the individual man’. They have multiplied the opportunities..for contact and for association with his fellows, but they have made these..more transitory and less stable.
1953 K. W. Deutsch Nationalism & Social Communication vi. 104 The processes of mobilization and assimilation may be illustrated rather strikingly in the case of Finland.
1960 Science 4 Mar. 639/2 Migmatite and granite are depicted as products of mobilization of material attending the deformation and metamorphism of the geosynclinal belt.
1984 B. W. Jones Solar System (BNC) 201 If mobilisation of dust on Mercury occurs electrically,..then this could help to spread out concentrations of finely divided ejecta.
4. Surgery and Medicine.
a. The action of making a fixed or stiff structure movable; spec. surgical detachment from adjacent structures.
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the world > movement > [noun] > making movable or setting in motion
stirringc1000
mobilization1890
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > other miscellaneous treatments
majoration1626
relaxant1661
diaeresis1706
blistering1711
Perkinism1798
tranquillizing1801
tractoration1803
tractorism1827
moxibustion1833
traction1841
remediation1850
moxocausis1857
bed-rest1872
aerotherapeutics1876
aerotherapy1876
metallotherapy1877
block1882
counter-irritation1882
bacteriotherapy1886
mechanotherapy1890
mobilization1890
seismotherapy1901
bacterization1902
replacement therapy1902
biotherapy1912
occupational therapy1915
protein therapy1917
psychophysicotherapeutics1922
recovery programme1922
plombage1933
bacteriostasis1936
oestrogenization1960
hyperalimentation1962
vegetablization1963
pain management1966
palliative care1967
gene therapy1970
1890 E. Law & C. Jewell tr. J. Gruber Text-bk. Dis. Ear xvii. 479 (heading) Mobilisation of the stapes.
1915 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 206 351 A course of treatment, e.g., massage and passive movements following the operation,..has brought about improvement by the mobilisation of the joints.
1959 P. Weiss in W. B. Patterson Wound Healing & Tissue Repair i. 3 The existence of highly specialized ultramicroscopic devices for cellular attachment (rather than plain adhesion)..must be taken into account when considering the mobilization of the epidermis for wound healing.
1967 S. R. Mawson Dis. Ear (ed. 2) xxi. 515 Relief of conductive deafness due to stapedial ankylosis by mobilization of stapes.
1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. ix. 106/2 The majority of insulinomas can be palpated at operation..although mobilization of the pancreas may be required.
b. The process of making a patient become mobile or physically active after a surgical operation, illness, etc.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > after-treatment
aftercare1629
after-cure1741
after-treatment1779
mobilization1901
1901 W. Rose & A. Carless Man. Surg. (ed. 4) xvi. 400 A most valuable adjuvant in the treatment of fractures is massage..whilst in some cases early mobilization is also desirable.
1966 Jrnl. Bone & Joint Surg. 48A 1282 (title) Treatment of spondylolisthesis by posterolateral fusion, resection of the pars interarticularis, and prompt mobilization of the patient.
1988 Amer. Jrnl. Sports Med. 16 486 After a period of immobilization by traditional methods (traction/long leg cast), the Sarmiento brace was applied at a mean of 42 days, allowing early weightbearing and mobilization.
1997 Ann. Thoracic Surg. 64 120 The advantages of this method include further reduction of surgical trauma, early mobilization, and rehabilitation of the patient.
5. Biology and Physiology. Release of a nutrient, mineral, cell, etc., from a storage organ or from an inactive into an active form in the body or the environment.
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1908 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 199 354 If, however, the sugar and other dissolved materials were removed from the sap.., converted into starch, and transferred by repeated mobilisation as sugar to the phloem, [etc.].
1933 Jrnl. Ecol. 28 117 Nitrogenous substances seem to be more available on the escarpment soils, which have high rates of nitrogen mobilization and fewer mycorrhizal roots than raw humus soils.
1967 Arch. Neurol. (Chicago) 16 135/2 Levarterenol produced..an increased mobilization of free fatty acids from adipose tissue.
1978 Blood 52 551 Mobilization of bone marrow granulocytes by glucocorticoid or endotoxin administration was not inhibited by intoxication.
2002 Nature 16 May 242/1 The mobilization of aluminium from acidic forest soils is arguably the most ecologically important consequence of acid deposition.
6. Microbiology and Molecular Biology. The process in which bacterial plasmid or chromosomal DNA is prepared for transfer by a conjugative plasmid to which it is not stably linked.
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1965 Nature 27 Nov. 846/2 Table 7 summarizes experiments aimed at demonstrating the transferability of Δ and its mobilization of R-determinants.
1978 Gene 4 25 Mobilization by the plasmid F was used to transfer the hybrid plasmids.
1992 Macmillan Dict. Biotechnol. 227/1 Experimental plasmids may have their mob and tra genes deleted in order to prevent the possibility of mobilization of recombinant plasmids in the event of accidental release into the environment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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