All mover and shaker synonyms
mov·er and shak·er
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- vip — A VIP is someone who is given better treatment than ordinary people because they are famous, influential, or important. VIP is an abbreviation for 'very important person'.
- catalyst — You can describe a person or thing that causes a change or event to happen as a catalyst.
- doer — a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- generator — a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
- leader — a person or thing that leads.
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- player — Gary, born 1935, South African golfer.
- presence — the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place.
- spark plug — a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
- upstart — a person who has risen suddenly from a humble position to wealth, power, or a position of consequence.
- whip — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
- go-getter — an enterprising, aggressive person.
- heavyweight — heavy in weight.
- producer — a person who produces.
- heavy hitter — a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
- achiever — A high achiever is someone who is successful in their studies or their work, usually as a result of their efforts. A low achiever is someone who achieves less than those around them.
- affluential — an affluent person who does not display his or her wealth in the form of material possessions
- mover — a person or thing that moves.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- trailblazer — a person who blazes a trail for others to follow through unsettled country or wilderness; pathfinder.