mobilise

Other forms of mobilise

past tense

mobilised·

present participle

mobilising·

third person

mobilises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mobilise

What does mobilise mean?

mobilise means "call to arms; of military personnel". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mobilise?

mobilise has 3 syllables and divides as mo-bi-lise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mobilise?

Close synonyms include call up, mobilize, rally, mobilize, mobilize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of mobilise?

The recorded antonyms are demobilise.

Is mobilise a common word?

mobilise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.