mobilize
verb(British English also mobilise)
- [transitive, intransitive] mobilize (somebody)
to work together in order to achieve a particular aim; to organize a group of people to do this synonym rally組織;鼓動;動員 The unions mobilized thousands of workers in a protest against the cuts. 各級工會組織了數千名工人抗議削減工資。 They successfully mobilized public opinion against him. 他們成功地鼓動輿論反對他。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- effectively
- successfully
- quickly
- …
- be able to
- can be mobilized
- against
- for
- [transitive] mobilize something
to find and start to use something that is needed for a particular purpose synonym marshal調動;調用 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- effectively
- successfully
- quickly
- …
- be able to
- can be mobilized
- against
- for
- [transitive, intransitive] mobilize (somebody/something)
if a country mobilizes its army, or if a country or army mobilizes, it makes itself ready to fight in a war compare demobilizeTopics War and conflictc1(戰時)動員 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- effectively
- successfully
- quickly
- …
- be able to
- can be mobilized
- against
- for
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from French mobiliser, from mobile, from Latin mobilis, from movere ‘to move’.