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movement /ˈmuːvm(ə)nt /noun1An act of moving: a slight movement of the body [mass noun]: the free movement of labour...- I support the free movement of capital but not the free movement of labour.
- I noticed her slight body movements to approach her shoulder bag.
- And in the slightest of movements, she kissed him back.
1.1An arrival or departure of an aircraft: the Civil Aviation Authority directed 125,000 aircraft movements in 1991...- Farnborough last year handled approximately 15, 500 business aircraft movements.
- The Air Traffic Control element has been busy in Iraq, handling on average more than 400 aircraft movements each day.
- In addition, there were about 2,000 movements by military aircraft that year.
1.2 ( movements) The activities and whereabouts of someone during a particular period of time: your movements and telephone conversations are recorded...- The investigation quite early led us to have concerns about the movements and activities of four men, three of whom came from the West Yorkshire area.
- There is evidence of mine clearing activities, movements of soldiers, bunkers around buildings and military pillboxes perched on the tops of hills.
- Players' movements and activities are so closely monitored that it is hard for anyone to approach or speak to the players, leave alone attempt to fix matches.
1.3 [mass noun] General activity or bustle: the scene was almost devoid of movement...- After breakfast, the Menen is bustling with activity and movement.
- Without context we end up on a merry-go-round of activity and movement that never seems to get us to where we want to be.
- The tavern was lively, bustling with movement and much drinking.
2 [often with modifier] A group of people working together to advance their shared political, social, or artistic ideas: the labour movement...- What's more important right now for the embattled labor movement, politics or organizing?
- Here in Maine we have done some great steps putting labor and progressive movement groups together.
- Our political and social liberation movements need to regain the initiative.
Synonyms political group, party, faction, organization, grouping, wing, front, lobby, camp; coalition 2.1A campaign undertaken by a political, social, or artistic movement: a movement to declare war on poverty...- It should be a source of optimism for us all that even at an early stage of the crisis, there is a substantial opposition movement to war.
- Yorkshire campaigners behind a national movement to help thyroid sufferers want to set up shop in York.
- We ended up spending an hour fuming over the new government movement to bring down university student representative groups.
Synonyms campaign, crusade, drive, push 2.2A change or development: the movement towards greater sexual equality movements in the underlying financial markets...- Characters in a story operate to make the story's movement visible and concrete, in a way that engages a reader's interest.
- But the language and movement of the poem also emphasize that if the speaker is on a journey, his destination is quite unknown.
- There was a general sense of movement toward waking now.
Synonyms development, change, fluctuation, rise, fall, variation trend, tendency, drift, swing, current, course 3 Music A principal division of a longer musical work, self-sufficient in terms of key, tempo, and structure: the slow movement of his violin concerto...- Shostakovich's slow movements always represent the composer at his most eloquent and deeply personal.
- Only the bass line and six bars of melody had survived, possibly from the slow movement of a Trio Sonata.
- The first movement changes views and tempi in what seems like every few bars or so.
Synonyms part, section, division, passage 4The moving parts of a mechanism, especially a clock or watch: we restore antique clock movements...- In his 80s he was repairing the finest of watch movements, making electrical and electronic clocks, and rebuilding mechanical ones.
- Although one finds some identical movements in clocks by a given Roxbury maker, one also finds identical movements in clocks by different Roxbury makers.
- Meanwhile, clock movements improved in design and manufacture.
Synonyms mechanism, machinery, works, workings, action, wheels, motion informal innards, guts 5 (also bowel movement) An act of defecation.If you don't have at least 1 bowel movement per day, you are already walking your way toward disease....- The urge came and went a few times until I experienced a more intense cramp that resulted in my first movement of the day.
- As a general rule, a healthy colon produces two movements a day.
OriginLate Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere 'to move'. |