Brewer's: Mobilise

To render soldiers liable to be moved on service out of the town where they live; to call into active service men enrolled but not on the war establishment. (Latin, mobilis.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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