mobile
♦ mo|bile /m'oʊbaɪl, AM -bəl/ (mobiles)
1 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
You use mobile to describe something large that can be moved easily from place to place.
...the four hundred seat mobile theatre.
2 [ADJ] usu v-link ADJ
If you are mobile, you can move or travel easily from place to place, for example because you are not physically disabled or because you have your own transport.
I'm still very mobile.
● mobility [N-UNCOUNT]
Two cars gave them the freedom and mobility to go their separate ways.
3 [ADJ]
In a mobile society, people move easily from one job, home, or social class to another.
We're a very mobile society, and people move after they get divorced.
...young, mobile professionals.
● mobility [N-UNCOUNT]
Prior to the nineteenth century, there were almost no channels of social mobility.
4 [N-COUNT]
A mobile is a decoration which you hang from a ceiling. It usually consists of several small objects which move as the air around them moves.
5 [N-COUNT]
A mobile is the same as a mobile phone.
6
see also upwardly mobilemo|bile home (mobile homes)
[N-COUNT]
A mobile home is a large caravan that people live in and that usually remains in the same place, but which can be pulled to another place using a car or van.mo|bile phone (mobile phones)
[N-COUNT]
A mobile phone is a telephone that you can carry with you and use to make or receive calls wherever you are. (BRIT; in AM, use cellular phone, cellphone)up|ward|ly mo|bile
[ADJ]
If you describe someone as upwardly mobile, you mean that they are moving, have moved, or are trying to move to a higher social position.
The Party has been unable to attract upwardly mobile voters.
[N-PLURAL] the N
The upwardly mobile are people who are upwardly mobile.
...the large detached houses of the upwardly mobile with their double garages and array of cars.
1 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
You use mobile to describe something large that can be moved easily from place to place.
...the four hundred seat mobile theatre.
2 [ADJ] usu v-link ADJ
If you are mobile, you can move or travel easily from place to place, for example because you are not physically disabled or because you have your own transport.
I'm still very mobile.
● mobility [N-UNCOUNT]
Two cars gave them the freedom and mobility to go their separate ways.
3 [ADJ]
In a mobile society, people move easily from one job, home, or social class to another.
We're a very mobile society, and people move after they get divorced.
...young, mobile professionals.
● mobility [N-UNCOUNT]
Prior to the nineteenth century, there were almost no channels of social mobility.
4 [N-COUNT]
A mobile is a decoration which you hang from a ceiling. It usually consists of several small objects which move as the air around them moves.
5 [N-COUNT]
A mobile is the same as a mobile phone.
6
see also upwardly mobilemo|bile home (mobile homes)
[N-COUNT]
A mobile home is a large caravan that people live in and that usually remains in the same place, but which can be pulled to another place using a car or van.mo|bile phone (mobile phones)
[N-COUNT]
A mobile phone is a telephone that you can carry with you and use to make or receive calls wherever you are. (BRIT; in AM, use cellular phone, cellphone)up|ward|ly mo|bile
[ADJ]
If you describe someone as upwardly mobile, you mean that they are moving, have moved, or are trying to move to a higher social position.
The Party has been unable to attract upwardly mobile voters.
[N-PLURAL] the N
The upwardly mobile are people who are upwardly mobile.
...the large detached houses of the upwardly mobile with their double garages and array of cars.