Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or state of being mobile.
- n. The movement of people, as from one social group, class, or level to another: "There's been . . . restructuring of industry and downward mobility for Americans as a whole” ( Lawrence W. Sherman).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The property of being mobile or easily movable; susceptibility of motion or movement; readiness to move or change in response to impulse or slight force; hence, changeableness: as, mobility of features.
- n. Movement; motion.
- n. (mob-il′ i-ti). The populace; the mob: a use suggested by nobility.
- n. In phytogeography, the inherent capacity of a plant for migration.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The condition of being mobile
- n. countable A measure of the extent to which something is mobile
- n. countable The movement of people or things
- n. uncountable Ease of movement between economic conditions
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being mobile.
- n. Humorous The mob; the lower classes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of moving freely
Etymologies
- From Latin mōbilitas ("mobility"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Distributing small and medium sized packets thro poor roads, over long distances, into deep pockets of rural India and getting the stockiest to trust the mobility is a Herculean task.”
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“This is still a low point in mobility, which is the lifeblood of our labor market and is important for young people.”
““This is still a low point in mobility, which is the lifeblood of our labor market and is important for young people.””
More American’s Moved Last Year But Not Long Distance | Impact Lab
“The marines that went back with our camera that shot this, believe this is what they refer to as a mobility kill.”
“To count this increase in income as a component of "mobility" is to use a significantly different definition of mobility than was employed in the other studies discussed above.”
The Poor Get Richer, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Income mobility is measured by tracking the longitudinal incomes of a group of a people and then comparing their end results against * society* and against their beginning results.”
Envy, Happiness, and Social Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Social mobility is measured by tracking the longitudinal incomes (and social status if you like) of a group of people and then comparing their end results against * each other*.”
Envy, Happiness, and Social Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“But I think that labor mobility is a really good thing.”
Let's Increase Poverty, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“One optimistic indicator of mobility is that wealth differences across siblings remain fairly high.”
The Inequality Issue, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Your explanation of how modern economist calculate intergenerational income mobility is completely wrong.”
Income Mobility, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘mobility’.
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TRAN - general terms
The vocabulary of transport policy
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Impressionism
Words that describe the art of the impressionist era.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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SEDE - principles and indicators
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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CULT - Cedefop
The different stages of lifelong learning
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Favorites
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Word of the day.
Some days, there will be a word. That word is the word of the day. Other days shall remain wordless. That's just the way things go.
petulant, anisometropia, zoroaster, cram, affinity, proprietary, cupertino effect, sidereal, schmutz, icosanoids, vendetta, bougie and 137 more...
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Inner B
Words with the letter b within the word, not just as the initial or last letter.
remember, maybe, able, unable, nimble, cable, reusable, thimble, cymbal, capable, tremble, enable and 143 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Words Words and more Words
ruckus, bustle, ominous, odious, abominable, atrocious, appal, abysmal, dismal, calamity, debacle, fiasco and 231 more...
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vocab set 3
alternative, barter, commerce, confine, evolve, expand, expire, exploit, formal, inheritable, integral, mobility and 23 more...
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List 1
This is my first, absolutely magnificent word list.
melancholy, drivel, strange, simple, cryptic, diminutive, fiddling, poached, mobility, marking, stingray
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