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mover
[ moo-ver ]
mover
/ ˈmuːvə /
noun
- informal.a person, business, idea, etc, that is advancing or progressing
- a person who moves a proposal, as in a debate
- a removal firm or a person who works for one
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- movers and shakers, Informal. powerful and influential people, as in politics and business.
More idioms and phrases containing mover
In addition to the idiom beginning with mover , also see prime mover .Example Sentences
The minute you stop playing that game the first mover advantage goes away.
He was a prime mover behind the Saudi military intervention in Bahrain a year ago to smash an incipient Shia reform movement.
China has been the main mover behind the six-party talks, aimed at convincing North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program.
Leo is strategic, the queen on the chessboard, the prime mover of the zodiac.
Vestas has clearly been the prime mover in WindMade and they both deserve and have received credit for that.
This success induced the noble mover to bring the subject before the house again.
In every direction but one he turns, and that is the direction where lies the prime mover of his toil, his subject.
Hookey, it seemed probable, was the prime mover; and I felt satisfied we should see him again.
That is true, too,—although I somehow think Merrick is the prime mover in this swindle.
Then came the camp-mover and hauled the wagon to fresh pastures in that illimitable, gray-green land.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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