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MILITARIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:
Example:
mobilization of the troops
Synonyms:
militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("militarization" is a kind of...):
social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "militarization"):
armament; arming; equipping (the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war)
conscription; draft; muster; selective service (compulsory military service)
remilitarisation; remilitarization (the act of militarizing again)
Derivation:
militarize (adopt for military use)
militarize (lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force)
