Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that moves.
- noun One that sets something in motion or initiates something.
- noun A firm that transports household or office goods from one location to another.
- noun A person who works for such a firm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which imparts motion or impels to action.
- noun One who or that which is in motion or action.
- noun A proposer; one who submits a proposition or recommends anything for consideration or adoption: as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.
- noun One whose business is to move furniture and other household goods, as from one place of residence to another.
- noun The first cause.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
- noun A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.
- noun One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc..
- noun A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who or something which
moves . - noun A
dancer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
- noun someone who moves
- noun a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another
- noun workman employed by a moving company
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Examples
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As Draper Fisher Jurvetson partner Tim Draper told USA Today in October 1999, the first-mover is "usual the (company) that's going to win it."
Are Small Investors Irrational?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So although the board has no claim on being the main mover on energy policy formation -- which remains the prime responsibility of the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources -- the board has a certain degree of influence in the shaping of energy policy.
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I think our Institute can proudly claim that it has been the main mover and organizer of the creation of the knowledge and information about the British Empire that is now so general.
Throne and Empire 1925
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By degrees they made an incomprehensible being of this energy, which as before they personified, this they called the mover of nature, divided it into two, one congenial to man's happiness, the other inimical to his welfare; these they deified in the same manner as they had before done nature with her various parts.
The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756
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There are a bunch of different types of psychic abilities: A watcher can see the future, A mover is telekinetic, Sniffers who can see the history of an object, Shifts can temporarily change the shape of things, Wipers can wipe your memory, and pushers can put thoughts in other people’s heads.
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In the world of standards the second-mover is the decision-maker, the first-mover is at the second guy’s mercy.
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Always known as a mover and shaker, the official start of Burke's rebuilding efforts could come at the March 4 trade deadline.
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Patti Stanger is what you might call a mover and a shaker.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: The Millionaire Matchmaker, Season 2 Premiere 2009
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Which is funny, because I'm not exactly what you'd call a mover and shaker in the music world.
Green Man Music Festival asakiyume 2008
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 - As a high-flying Republican lobbyist, Jack Abramoff has long been known as a mover and shaker in Washington.
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