mount · verb
Meanings and examples
To organise and begin a planned activity, especially a major effort.
Residents mounted a campaign to keep the village library open when closure was announced.
The charity is mounting a major effort to collect warm clothes before winter arrives.
Police mounted a search after the family reported that the elderly walker had not returned.
The museum mounted an exhibition to celebrate a century of local photography and film.
Forms
- mount base form
- mounts third-person singular present
- mounted past tense; past participle
- mounting present participle