Definitions for movers

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movers mov·er

Spelling: [moo-ver]

IPA: /ˈmu vər/

Movers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in movers (emorsv).

Definitions for movers

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 movers

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

Examples for movers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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