remobilizev.
/ˌriːˈməʊbᵻlʌɪz/, /ˌriːˈməʊbl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /riˈmoʊbəˌlaɪz/ 1. transitive. To mobilize (a person or thing) again (in various senses of mobilize v.1). Also intransitive.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > levy or mobilize
make?a1160
host1297
arear1366
araisec1386
raisea1425
to call to account1434
rearc1450
levyc1500
riga1513
erect1520
leave1590
to call to arms1592
compound1614
re-embody1685
mobilize1853
remobilize1886
1886 Times 13 Feb. 11/1 The Bulgarian army is being re-mobilized.
1899 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Reporter 28 Dec. 4/3 Buller's forces will remobilize at Frere.
1920 Polit. Sci. Q. 35 126 Military bodies have been remobilized as industrial forces.
1956 A. L. George & J. L. George W. Wilson vii. 114 At Princeton..having been challenged in a fashion which most painfully remobilized his early conflicts, Wilson was unable to curb himself in the interest of his educational goals.
1989 H. A. Lowenstam & S. Weiner On Biomineralization vii. 120 Dissolving some of the mineral out of the old cuticle,..storing part of it temporarily, and then remobilizing it for mineralizing the next cuticle.
2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 June a23 He plans to describe how to remobilize government and address economic anxiety.
2. transitive. Geology. To make (rock, sediment, etc.) fluid or plastic again.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > make liquid [verb (transitive)] > again
remobilize1949
1949 Geol. Surv. Nigeria No. 20. ii. 15 The aplitic types evidently represent a remobilised product of the granite-gneiss, while the leuco-granite-gneiss was only partially mobilised and occurs as inclusions in the aplite.
1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xxi. 313/1 Continental mountain ranges are..principally composed of original continental crust (in great part remobilised).
2002 Arctic, Antarctic, & Alpine Res. 34 329/1 There is no evidence from the X-radiograph that this dated sediment has been remobilized as a debris flow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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