Words / C1

MOHB-uh-lyz/ˈməʊbəlaɪz/

To mobilise (US mobilize) is to organise people or resources for action: mobilise volunteers, mobilise support. Organise is everyday; recruit is hire or enlist; military mobilisation is the army sense. Do not mobilise a press note before the embargo lifts.

Meaning

To organise people or resources so they are ready for action.

Examples

• “Mobilise the night porters before you publish the sitting times.”
• “Organise is everyday. Gather is weaker. Deploy is send into position. British spelling keeps -ise. A poster is not mobilisation if nobody is on the rota.”

Good to know

Call up / organise for action. Everyday: organise. British: mobilise. A poster without names is not mobilisation.

Near in meaning

organise

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