mobilizing
- 1Present participle of mobilize.
The general focused on mobilizing troops before dawn broke.
Community leaders are mobilizing support for the new health clinic.
Note
The -ing form does two jobs. In the general was mobilizing troops it builds the progressive; in mobilizing troops took all night it heads a noun phrase as a gerund. It keeps both patterns of the verb, taking an object (mobilizing reserves, mobilizing support) or standing alone when a nation itself prepares for war (the country is mobilizing). The -ize spelling is both the American and the Oxford British form.
mobilizing is a form of mobilize
mobilize, verb: To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated way so they are ready for war. Full entry
- Spelling
- mobilize → mobilizing: drop the e, add -ing
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