動員|どういんdouin[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verbmobilization; mobilisation

• Related召集しょうしゅうWrittenWritten/formal: a superior authority orders people to assemble, e.g. 「国会を召集」 or calling up soldiers; 「動員」 stresses deploying for a purpose.
• Related招集しょうしゅうWrittenWritten/formal: convening a meeting or its members, as in 「会議を招集」; the focus is getting people to attend, while 「動員」 is about mustering resources for a task.
• Related駆り集めるかりあつめるNeutralRounds up scattered people or things in one place, as in 「人手を駆り集める」; often with a hurried, scraping-together feel, while 「動員」 is organized deployment for a purpose.
• Related呼び集めるよびあつめるNeutralA verb for calling people to come together, as in 「家族を呼び集める」; it only says you call them over, while 「動員」 implies organized mustering for a purpose.
• Related徴するちょうするWrittenWritten/formal verb: to levy taxes or conscripts, and also to solicit opinions, as in 「意見を徴する」; it is not the word for deploying people to a task, as 「動員」 is.
• Related呼集こしゅうWrittenWritten/formal: calling people to assemble, seen mainly in military contexts; it just means summoning them together, while 「動員」 means mustering them for a purpose.
• Antonym復員ふくいんWrittenWritten/formal antonym: after a war, the military returns to peacetime footing and soldiers are discharged and sent home; the opposite of 「動員」, which calls them up.

Use 「動員」 for mobilizing people or resources for a purpose — 「総動員」, or 「観客動員」 for drawing audiences. For convening the Diet use 「召集」, for convening a meeting 「招集」; for rounding people up on the spot, 「駆り集める」. 「復員」 is demobilization.

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1. ある目的もくてきのために人ひとや物ものを駆り集かりあつめること。
2. 映画えいがなどの興行こうぎょうで観客かんきゃくを集あつめること。またその観客数かんきゃくすう。
3. 軍隊ぐんたいを平時へいじの編制へんせいから戦時せんじの編制へんせいに切り替きりかえること。
4. 戦争せんそう遂行すいこうのために国内こくないの工場こうじょう・資源しげん・人員じんいんなどを政府せいふの管理下かんりかに置おくこと。