mover Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun workman employed by a moving company
    • the movers were very careful with the grand piano
  2. noun (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
    proposer.
  3. noun someone who moves
  4. noun a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another
    moving company; public mover; removal company; removal firm.

WordNet


Mov"er noun
Definitions
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
  2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.
  3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition.
    These most poisonous compounds, Which are the movers of a languishing death. Shak.
  4. A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.

Webster 1913