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   movable

   /ˈmuːvəbl/

   adjective

   • 1. capable of being moved: "they stripped the town of all movable objects and fled" Similar portabletransportabletransferablemobileadjustableflexibledetachablerare:portativeOpposite immovable
   • ▪ (of a feast or festival) variable in date from year to year: "a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts, both fixed and movable" Similar variablechangeablealterableunfixedfloatingOpposite fixedimmovable
   • 2. (of property) of the nature of a chattel, as distinct from land or buildings: "a man of sufficient movable property but with hardly any land"

   noun

   • 1. property or possessions not including land or buildings: "in many cases the movables are the facilities and stock-in-trade of a business"
   • ▪ an article of furniture that may be removed from a house, as distinct from a fixture: "all the movables have been removed and the roof has fallen in"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, from moveir ‘to move’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. movability noun
   • 2. movably adverb

   Scrabble Points: 14

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