Definitions for mover

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mover mov·er

Spelling: [moo-ver]

IPA: /ˈmu vər/

Mover is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in mover (emorv).

Definitions for mover

noun

1. a person or thing that moves.
2. Often, movers. a person or company whose business is the moving of household effects or office equipment from one location to another.
3. a powerful and influential person, as in politics or business.
4. a person who is energetic and ambitious; go-getter.

Idioms

1. movers and shakers, Informal. powerful and influential people, as in politics and business.

Origin of mover

First recorded in 1350-1400, mover is from the Middle English word mevere. See move, -er¹

Examples for mover

That is particularly the case when he is dealing with the soul and the first mover.

Well, goodness knows our Junior League needs a mover of some sort.

The motion was denied, and the mover of it emphatically rebuked.

In turn the latter takes the idea of a first mover from physics.

For the argument from motion does not give us a creator but a first mover.

Kristol was viewed as a mover and shaker whose ideas had ready impact on the political firmament in Washington.

I became the depositary of his secrets and the mover of his counsels.

This mover is either outside the sphere it moves or within it.

My first thought was that it was the camp-fire of some mover on the fire-brake.

The minute you stop playing that game the first mover advantage goes away.