mover (redirected from movers and shakers)

mov·er  (mvr)

n.

1. One that moves: a fast mover in corporate circles.

2. One that transports household or office goods from one location to another as an occupation. Often used in the plural.

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mover

Noun

1. a person or animal that moves in a particular way: a slow mover

2. the person who first puts forward a proposal

3. US & Canad a removal firm or a person who works for one

Thesaurus

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

mover [ˈmuːvəʳ] n → proponente m/f

mover [ˈmuːvəʳ] n → auteur m d'une proposition

mover [ˈmuːvəʳ] move n (of proposal) → Antragsteller(in) m(f)

mover [ˈmuːvəʳ] n → proponente m/f