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Noun prime mover has 1 sense

• prime mover(n = noun.person) first cause, primum mobile - an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause; "God is the first cause"
is a kind of causal agency, causal agent, cause

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prime mover

abettor, actor, actuator, agent, ancestors, animator, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, cajoler, catalyst, causer, coax, coaxer, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, doer, effector, encourager, energizer, engenderer, engineer, executant, executor, executrix, fabricator, father, firer, founder, gadfly, galvanizer, generator, grower, impeller, inaugurator, inducer, industrialist, initiator, inspirer, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, medium, mother, mover, moving spirit, operant, operative, operator, organizer, originator, parent, past master, performer, perpetrator, persuader, planner, pleader, practitioner, precursor, primum mobile, producer, prompter, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith, spark, spark plug, sparker, stimulator, subject, tempter, wheedler, worker, wright

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Cause

N cause, origin, source, principle, element, occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile, vera causa, author, mainspring, agent, leaven, groundwork, foundation, spring, fountain, well, font, fountainhead, spring head, wellhead, fons et origo, genesis, descent, remote cause, influence, pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum, key, proximate cause, causa causans, straw that breaks the camel's back, ground, reason, reason why, why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation, final cause, les dessous des cartes, undercurrents, rudiment, egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm, nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed, causality, causation, origination, production, caused, causal, original, primary, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, protogenal, radical, embryonic, embryotic, in embryo, in ovo, seminal, germinal, at the bottom of, connate, having a common origin, because, behind the scenes, causa latet vis est notissima, felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

Producer

N producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover, maker, prime mover, producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover, maker, prime mover.

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