mov·er

(mo͞o′vər)

a. One that moves: The old dog is a slow mover.

b. One that sets something in motion or initiates something: a leading mover in the effort to reform education.

a. often movers A firm that transports household or office goods from one location to another.

b. A person who works for such a firm.

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mover

(ˈmuːvə)

1. informal a person, business, idea, etc, that is advancing or progressing

2. a person who moves a proposal, as in a debate

3. (Commerce) US and Canadian a removal firm or a person who works for one

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

mov•er

(ˈmu vər)

n.

1. one that moves.

2. Often, movers. a person or company that moves household effects, office equipment, etc.

3. movers and shakers, powerful and influential people, as in politics and business.

[1350–1400]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	mover - workman employed by a moving company; "the movers were very careful with the grand piano" remover - someone who works for a company that moves furniture working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
	2.	mover - (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion proposer parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order, order - a body of rules followed by an assembly nominator - someone who proposes a candidate for appointment or election conceiver, mastermind, originator - someone who creates new things
	3.	mover - someone who moves traveler, traveller - a person who changes location advancer - someone who advances ascender - someone who ascends coaster - someone who coasts descender - someone who descends hitter, striker - someone who hits; "a hard hitter"; "a fine striker of the ball"; "blacksmiths are good hitters" lunger - someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing) puller - someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself shover, pusher - someone who pushes scrambler - a rapid mover; someone who scrambles; "their quarterback was a good scrambler"; "scramblers can often unnerve a better tennis player" transferer, transferrer - someone who transfers something traverser - someone who moves or passes across; "the traversers slowly ascended the mountain"
	4.	mover - a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another moving company, public mover, removal company, removal firm company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage"

Translations

chi esegue traslochi promotore

mover

[ˈmuːvəʳ] N

1. [of motion] → promotor/a m/f

2. (US) → agente m de mudanzas

3. he's a lovely mover → se mueve con mucho garbo, baila/anda con mucha elegancia

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mover

[ˈmuːvə^r] n (in debate) → auteur m d'une proposition

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

mover

(of proposition) → Antragsteller(in) m(f)

(= remover) → Möbelpacker(in) m(f)

(= walker, dancer etc) he is a good/poor etc mover → seine Bewegungen sind schön/plump etc

the movers and shakers (inf) → die Leute pl → mit Einfluss; to be a fast mover (inf) → von der schnellen Truppe sein (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

mover

[ˈmuːvəʳ] n → proponente m/f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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1-5) I begin to sing about Poseidon, the great god, mover of the earth and fruitless sea, god of the deep who is also lord of Helicon and wide Aegae.

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The great Zola, or call him the immense Zola, was the prime mover in the attack upon the masters of the Romanticistic school; but he lived to own that he had fought a losing fight, and there are some proofs that he was right.

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'On this starlight night, Mr Venus,' he remarks, when he is showing that friendly mover out across the yard, and both are something the worse for mixing again and again: 'on this starlight night to think that talking-over strangers, and underhanded minds, can go walking home under the sky, as if they was all square!'

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And now Mr Thomas Codlin, the misanthrope, after blowing away at the Pan's pipes until he was intensely wretched, took his station on one side of the checked drapery which concealed the mover of the figures, and putting his hands in his pockets prepared to reply to all questions and remarks of Punch, and to make a dismal feint of being his most intimate private friend, of believing in him to the fullest and most unlimited extent, of knowing that he enjoyed day and night a merry and glorious existence in that temple, and that he was at all times and under every circumstance the same intelligent and joyful person that the spectators then beheld him.

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The mover and seconder of the first Resolution (not having so much as the ghost of an idea to trouble either of them), poured out language in flowing and overflowing streams, like water from a perpetual spring.

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Noel Vanstone, in the most alarming language, that he is destined to become the victim of a conspiracy; and that the prime mover of it is a young lady who has already held written communication with his father and himself.

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Nevertheless the sensation involving discomfort remains the prime mover.

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I have heard to-night similar, but even more offensive, sentiments from the person who has just sat down, and though it is a conscious effort of self-effacement to come down to that person's mental level, I will endeavor to do so, in order to allay any reasonable doubt which could possibly exist in the minds of anyone.' (Laughter and interruption.) `I need not remind this audience that, though Professor Summerlee, as the head of the Committee of Investigation, has been put up to speak to-night, still it is I who am the real prime mover in this business, and that it is mainly to me that any successful result must be ascribed.

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And now, to be defied and spurned, to be held up to her in the worst and most repulsive colours, to know that she was taught to hate and despise him: to feel that there was infection in his touch, and taint in his companionship--to know all this, and to know that the mover of it all was that same boyish poor relation who had twitted him in their very first interview, and openly bearded and braved him since, wrought his quiet and stealthy malignity to such a pitch, that there was scarcely anything he would not have hazarded to gratify it, if he could have seen his way to some immediate retaliation.

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Expert and reliable packers and movers were engaged to convey the furniture, carpets, pictures --everything movable, in short--to places of security.

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"The 'movers.' They lease, clean out and gut a place in several years, and then move on.

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I have already recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharpened, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to be buried in my heart?"

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