shaker
16
7.8
- noun
- /ˈʃeɪkər/
:
persona influyente
- King had always liked being a mover and shaker in Trinity Harbor.
- movers and shakers
Real bloggers are not shakers and movers, decision makers or power brokers.
- Real bloggers are not shakers and movers, decision makers or power brokers.
- But you know, Sean, we are movers and shakers.
- And it's a club of artists and movers and shakers and I mean, classic New York club kind of thing.
- But if they push out all the producers, innovators, creators, movers and shakers, there's no one left to make anything, build anything, solve anything.
- The meek are, you know, certainly not the Ballers and movers and shakers and egomaniacs and the, you know, the people who run the world.
- I think that many of the movers and shakers in the world have an innately aggressive they, they like to seize the initiative.
Examples
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Ben Ross Schneider points to the state as the mover and shaker behind the large-scale infrastructure projects and reforms.
Academic text (1997) -
What should it matter to one so great, O shaker of the Earth?
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I'm quite a mover and shaker in the art world.
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Learn more about these movers and shakers and others who are having a profound impact on our world.
Academic text (2016) -
Horowitz is the key; he is the main mover and shaker in terms of channeling funding to these people.
Blog text (17) -
Would you like to reach Portland's movers and shakers with your advertising?
Blog text (1) -
And true alphas are the leaders, movers, and shakers of the world.
Blog text (22) -
The Chronicle's On Leadership video series explores various aspects of campus leadership with movers and shakers across academe.
Academic text (2016) -
The Obama administration and most of the Democratic Party's movers and shakers have wholeheartedly embraced this agenda.
Blog text (29) -
As a prominent shaker in the tech industry, she constantly influences new innovations.
Synonyms
15
3.2
A person whose actions or ideas strongly affect other people's choices
9
6.1
A powerful and energetic person who makes important things happen
2
7.9
A person who uses connections to influence votes or decisions
1
9.9
A person who rules or controls others
1
4.3
A person who works to make positive change in a community or organization
Antonyms
Compounds
A very large plant-eating dinosaur from western North America that lived long ago
How Influential
7
8.2
2
7.9
16
7.8
- Texting
19
3.8
661
4.1
295
2.4
84
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shaker comes from the verb shake ('move quickly' or 'disturb') plus the ending -er that means 'one who does'. So a shaker is someone who 'shakes things up'—a person who causes change or has strong influence.