Movilizar

Movilizar is a Spanish verb that generally means to organize and prepare people, resources, or things for a purpose, and to move or deploy them into action. It can refer to assembling personnel, activating systems, or relocating something, as well as to prompting collective action in political, social, or emergency contexts. The reflexive form movilizarse describes the act of a group or individual taking action or coming together.

Uses of movilizar are broad. In politics and social movements, it is common to say that organizations mobilize voters, supporters, or public opinion. In military and security contexts, it can mean deploying troops or equipment. In logistics, empresas and administrations mobilize resources, funds, or infrastructure. In health and disaster response, authorities mobilize aid, volunteers, and emergency services. The verb also appears in everyday language, for example when a company mobilizes its teams for a project or a city mobilizes resources after a crisis.

Conjugation and grammar notes: movilizar is a regular -ar verb. Present indicative forms include movilizo, movilizas, moviliza, movilizamos, movilizáis, movilizan. Subjunctive present: movilice, movilices, movilice, movilicemos, movilicéis, movilicen. Imperfect: movilizaba, movilizabas, movilizaba, movilizábamos, movilizabais, movilizaban. Past participle: movilizado; gerund: movilizando. The reflexive form movilizarse follows the same conjugation pattern with a reflexive pronoun (me, te, se, nos, os, se).

Etymology: derived from móvil (mobile) plus the suffix -izar, from Latin mobilis meaning movable. Related noun: movilización; antonym: desmovilización.