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UK
/mˈuːvɐ/
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[ US /ˈmuvɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈmuvɝ/ ]
NOUN
- (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
- a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another
- someone who moves
-
workman employed by a moving company
the movers were very careful with the grand piano
How To Use mover In A Sentence
- The proposed new European league, in which Celtic and Rangers are the prime movers, will not just put the his club on a level commercial footing with the major Italian and English ones, but will also be a major stimulant to the Scottish game.
- "I'm going to hire some movers to pack everything up.
- Once we do this tomorrow, the movers will bring everything we own (save for about 6 suitcases' worth) to our home, and we'll be officially moved in.
- It can be bought online and is used as a solvent or stain remover. The Sun
- The movers will move it, and I could care less how they go about hoisting it out of the room and onto their truck.
- He is a very neat horse and a good mover. The Sun
- We expect further modest growth for the rest of the year, although affordability pressures are likely to limit gains for first-time buyers and home movers. Times, Sunday Times
- Don't believe the old saw that you can't be out and still be a mover and shaker in Hollywood.
- He was the prime mover in the revolt against the government.
- Stokton, a fishmonger, Thomas Yong, a saddler, and Robert Jakes, a shearman — all of whom had more than once been convicted of perjury, and on that account been struck off inquests — had contrived to get themselves replaced on the panel, and had been the chief movers in the recent actions against the late mayor and other officers of the city. London and the Kingdom - Volume I