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mov·er

 (mo͞o′vər)
n.
1.
a. One that moves: The old dog is a slow mover.
b. One that sets something in motion or initiates something: a leading mover in the effort to reform education.
2.
a. often movers A firm that transports household or office goods from one location to another.
b. A person who works for such a firm.
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mover

(ˈmuːvə)
n
1. informal a person, business, idea, etc, that is advancing or progressing
2. a person who moves a proposal, as in a debate
3. (Commerce) US and Canadian a removal firm or a person who works for one
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mov•er

(ˈmu vər)

n.
1. one that moves.
2. Often, movers. a person or company that moves household effects, office equipment, etc.
3. movers and shakers, powerful and influential people, as in politics and business.
[1350–1400]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.mover - workman employed by a moving companymover - workman employed by a moving company; "the movers were very careful with the grand piano"
remover - someone who works for a company that moves furniture
working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
2.mover - (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order, order - a body of rules followed by an assembly
nominator - someone who proposes a candidate for appointment or election
conceiver, mastermind, originator - someone who creates new things
3.mover - someone who moves
traveler, traveller - a person who changes location
advancer - someone who advances
ascender - someone who ascends
coaster - someone who coasts
descender - someone who descends
hitter, striker - someone who hits; "a hard hitter"; "a fine striker of the ball"; "blacksmiths are good hitters"
lunger - someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing)
puller - someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself
shover, pusher - someone who pushes
scrambler - a rapid mover; someone who scrambles; "their quarterback was a good scrambler"; "scramblers can often unnerve a better tennis player"
transferer, transferrer - someone who transfers something
traverser - someone who moves or passes across; "the traversers slowly ascended the mountain"
4.mover - a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another
company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage"
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Translations

mover

[ˈmuːvəʳ] N
1. [of motion] → promotor/a m/f
2. (US) → agente m de mudanzas
3. he's a lovely moverse mueve con mucho garbo, baila/anda con mucha elegancia
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mover

[ˈmuːvər] n (in debate)auteur m d'une proposition
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

mover

n
(of proposition)Antragsteller(in) m(f)
(= remover)Möbelpacker(in) m(f)
(= walker, dancer etc) he is a good/poor etc moverseine Bewegungen sind schön/plump etc
the movers and shakers (inf)die Leute plmit Einfluss; to be a fast mover (inf)von der schnellen Truppe sein (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

mover

[ˈmuːvəʳ] nproponente m/f
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References in classic literature ?
Expert and reliable packers and movers were engaged to convey the furniture, carpets, pictures --everything movable, in short--to places of security.
Then, leaving this part of the subject, he remarks on the special phenomenon that before his installation in the Bower, it was from Mr Venus that he first heard of the legend of hidden wealth in the Mounds: 'which', he observes with a vaguely pious air, 'was surely never meant for nothing.' Lastly, he returns to the cause of the right, gloomily foreshadowing the possibility of something being unearthed to criminate Mr Boffin (of whom he once more candidly admits it cannot be denied that he profits by a murder), and anticipating his denunciation by the friendly movers to avenging justice.
"The 'movers.' They lease, clean out and gut a place in several years, and then move on.
I have already recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharpened, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to be buried in my heart?"
In all such cases your movers, and your seconders, and your supporters --your regular Professors of all degrees, run amuck like so many mad Malays; habitually attributing the lowest and basest motives with the utmost recklessness (let me call your attention to a recent instance in yourself for which you should blush), and quoting figures which you know to be as wilfully onesided as a statement of any complicated account that should be all Creditor side and no Debtor, or all Debtor side and no Creditor.
Monsieur de Valois, one of the movers in the last uprising (during which the Marquis de Montauran, betrayed by his mistress, perished in spite of the devotion of Marche-a-Terre, now tranquilly raising cattle for the market near Mayenne),--Monsieur de Valois had, during the last six months, given the key to several choice stratagems practised upon an old republican named Hulot, the commander of a demi-brigade stationed at Alencon from 1798 to 1800, who had left many memories in the place.
In these movements nothing was more remarkable than the discontent they begot in the movers. The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterward, to declare their discontent with these Conventions, their independence of their colleagues, and their impatience of the methods whereby they were working.
Besides, they had been the movers of the strike against unlawful fagging.
1-5) I begin to sing about Poseidon, the great god, mover of the earth and fruitless sea, god of the deep who is also lord of Helicon and wide Aegae.
The great Zola, or call him the immense Zola, was the prime mover in the attack upon the masters of the Romanticistic school; but he lived to own that he had fought a losing fight, and there are some proofs that he was right.
And now Mr Thomas Codlin, the misanthrope, after blowing away at the Pan's pipes until he was intensely wretched, took his station on one side of the checked drapery which concealed the mover of the figures, and putting his hands in his pockets prepared to reply to all questions and remarks of Punch, and to make a dismal feint of being his most intimate private friend, of believing in him to the fullest and most unlimited extent, of knowing that he enjoyed day and night a merry and glorious existence in that temple, and that he was at all times and under every circumstance the same intelligent and joyful person that the spectators then beheld him.
The mover and seconder of the first Resolution (not having so much as the ghost of an idea to trouble either of them), poured out language in flowing and overflowing streams, like water from a perpetual spring.