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movement
noun as in motion, activity
Strongest matches
act, action, change, development, evolution, exercise, flow, migration, move, operation, progress, shift
Strong matches
advance, agitation, alteration, deed, displacement, dynamism, flight, flux, gesture, journey, journeying, locomotion, maneuver, mobility, motility, movableness, passage, progression, regression, shifting, steps, stir, stirring, transit, transplanting, undertaking, velocity, wandering
Weak matches
changing, evolving, moving, operativeness, roaming, transferal, translating, voyaging
noun as in drive, campaign
Strongest matches
change, crusade, demonstration, evolution, faction, flow, group, organization, party, shift, tendency, transfer, trend, unrest
Strong matches
current, displacement, drift, flight, front, grouping, march, mobilization, patrol, sweep, swing, transition, withdrawal
Example Sentences
I reviewed more than 14,000 pages of letters and internal documents from the anti-immigration movement.
Much of the American environmental movement shared this sense of urgency.
That’s why, he thought, the immigration fight had to be taken up inside the conservation movement itself, by what is viewed as America’s most prominent environmental organization, an organization that would have the moral authority to bring difficult messages to the public.
Inc. provided financial support for Peter Brimelow, a former Forbes journalist, to write “Alien Nation” — a book Tanton helped edit and that would go on to shape the white supremacy movement.
Having lost the backing of the Sierra Club, America’s anti-immigration movement turned more explicitly to climate change — and to one of Zuckerman’s Sierra Club colleagues, Leon Kolankiewicz, an environmental planner versed in sprawl and impact studies and a longtime proponent of the idea that the planet had a limited carrying capacity.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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