mobile
• adjective 1 able to move or be moved freely or easily. 2 (of a shop, library, etc.) accommodated in a vehicle so as to travel around. 3 able or willing to move between occupations, places of residence, or social classes. 4 (of the features of the face) readily changing expression. • noun 1 a decorative structure suspended so as to turn freely in the air. 2 a mobile phone. — PHRASES upwardly (or downwardly) mobile moving to a higher (or lower) social class. — ORIGIN Latin mobilis, from movere ‘to move’.
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