Meaning of noun + を挙げて


In _Last Period: Owarinaki Rasen no Monogatari_ a village chief is imposing
retirement on a male guide which relaunched turism in the realm, and he wants
to made a group of beautiful girl guides; at one point, there is this
sentence:

> 市を挙げて観光案内美少女グループを結成する

I can't find this construction on my grammars, but from what I was able to
gather it means something like "-wide; As a whole; En masse"; I can't really
understand it, though: what should it mean? That the whole city is creating
that group guide? That group guide will cover the whole city? Something else?




I would say it is an odd usage of the following sense of
[あげる](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E4%B8%8A%E3%81%92%E3%82%8B/#jn-3185)

> 7 ㋒（挙げる）事を起こす。「兵を―・げる」

It means _to move/deploy (soldiers)_ , and a more common use (in an extended
sense) would be

  * 奥州市は市を挙げて大谷翔平を応援している
  * Oshu city as a whole supports Shohei Otani.

The basic meaning is, as you mentioned, _en masse/as a whole_ and implies the
organizational movement.

Another example:

  * 会社を挙げて新製品の開発に取り組む
  * The whole company works on developing a new product.

As for the sentence in question, 市を挙げて modifies 結成する - so it means the city as
a whole creates the sight-seeing-guide-girls-group (probably as a part of
strategy of promoting the city).

* * *

As pointed out in the comment,

> 6 ㋒（挙げる）力などを出し尽くす。「全力を―・げる」「町を―・げて応援する」

This seems to be the definition intended for the usage. I feel _-wide_ is
closer to the usage (市を挙げて does not sound like 市 trying hard), but at least it
explains why I feel odd about 市を挙げて・・・結成する. Creating a group is not something
one (or me at least) imagines requires to exhaust energy to accomplish. So
collocation-wise, the sentence in question is not too idiomatic.




I'm not sure why デジタル大辞泉 doesn't have it but スーパー大辞林 has this definition:

> ⑲ （「…をあげて」の形で）構成メンバーがそろって…するさまを表す。《挙》「国を―・げて歓迎する」「世を―・げて」

There's nothing odd about it. I believe 舉國 in Chinese has a similar meaning,
too.

