MOVER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mover mean? 

• MOVER (noun)
  The noun MOVER has 4 senses:

1. workman employed by a moving company

2. (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion

3. someone who moves

4. a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another

  Familiarity information: MOVER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Workman employed by a moving company

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

the movers were very careful with the grand piano

Hypernyms ("mover" is a kind of...):

working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mover"):

remover (someone who works for a company that moves furniture)

Derivation:

move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

mover; proposer

Hypernyms ("mover" is a kind of...):

conceiver; mastermind; originator (someone who creates new things)

Domain category:

order; parliamentary law; parliamentary procedure; rules of order (a body of rules followed by an assembly)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mover"):

nominator (someone who proposes a candidate for appointment or election)

Derivation:

move (be in a state of action)

move (propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who moves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mover" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mover"):

advancer (someone who advances)

ascender (someone who ascends)

coaster (someone who coasts)

descender (someone who descends)

hitter; striker (someone who hits)

lunger (someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing))

puller (someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself)

pusher; shover (someone who pushes)

scrambler (a rapid mover; someone who scrambles)

transferer; transferrer (someone who transfers something)

traverser (someone who moves or passes across)

Derivation:

move (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

move (change residence, affiliation, or place of employment)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

mover; moving company; public mover; removal company; removal firm

Hypernyms ("mover" is a kind of...):

company (an institution created to conduct business)

Derivation:

move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

 Context examples 

Why, there's Copperfield, mother, he angrily retorted, pointing his lean finger at me, against whom all his animosity was levelled, as the prime mover in the discovery; and I did not undeceive him; there's Copperfield, would have given you a hundred pound to say less than you've blurted out!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I need not remind this audience that, though Professor Summerlee, as the head of the Committee of Investigation, has been put up to speak to-night, still it is I who am the real prime mover in this business, and that it is mainly to me that any successful result must be ascribed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)