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mover /ˈmuːvə /noun1A person or thing that moves: she’s a lovely mover job movers...- He has always been a very good-looking horse and a lovely mover.
- Hertford were the biggest movers of the top women's crew, moving from 4th in division to 11th in division.
- The ballet company has beautiful movers who perform the classics very well indeed, but I strongly recommend you see them dance in a different context too - they're really great!
1.1chiefly North American A person whose job is to remove and transport furniture from one house to another: he watched movers load the remaining boxes on an 18-wheel van...- Sitting in the driveway of his new house on Long Island, he watched the movers carry a large dresser from the truck inside the house.
- Put the house on the market, hire movers, and move home.
- "I'm going to hire some movers to pack everything up.
2A person who makes a formal proposal at a meeting or in an assembly: movers and seconders rise and give speeches...- I also congratulate the mover and the seconder of this debate on their speeches and, in advance, congratulate all other speakers who will make their maiden speeches in the course of this debate.
- Matt Wrack, mover of the successful democratisation of the political fund resolution at the firefighters' FBU conference last year, has agreed to write a pamphlet on the issue for the alliance.
- When the annexation of Belgium was decreed on 1 October 1795 the mover of the proposal, Merlin de Douai, also recommended the annexation of the entire left bank of the Rhine.
2.1A person who instigates or organizes something: she was the key mover in making this successful conference happen...- He was a protégé of the Fishermen's Protective Union and a key mover in the development of the province's labour movements of the 1920s.
- Balaraj is a key mover behind an informal forum in the city which helps young entrepreneurs to find start-up capital.
- That was Jim Tulip, one of the key movers behind Wellspring, a new Australian Christian community with its feet firmly in the bush.
PhrasesRhymesdisapprover, hoover, improver, louvre (US louver), manoeuvre (US maneuver), outmanoeuvre (US outmaneuver), reprover, Suva, Tuva, Vancouver |