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What (who) is prime mover - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Prime Mover; Prime movership; The Prime Movers; The Prime Movers (Band); Prime mover (disambiguation); Prime Movers; The Prime Movers (band); Prime movers; Prime Mover (disambiguation); Prime-mover
prime mover
¦ noun
1. the originator of a plan or project.
2. an initial source of motive power.
prime mover
(prime movers)
The prime mover behind a plan, idea, or situation is someone who has an important influence in starting it.
He was the prime mover behind the coup...
= driving force
N-COUNT: usu N behind/in n
Causeless cause
POSTULATED ULTIMATE CAUSE OF ALL ACTIVITY IN THE UNIVERSE
Aristotelian theology; First cause; First Cause; Primum movens; Uncaused causer; Uncaused cause; Unmoved Mover; Primus motor; Aristotelian view of god; Prime mover theory; Principle of unmoved mover; Causeless cause; Unmoved movers; Aristotelian view of a god; Aristotelian view of God; Sphere of the prime mover; Prime mover (philosophy); Ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ; First uncaused cause
Causeless cause (or all cause) is "An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable Principle"Helena Petrona Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Theosophical Publishing House, 1982 [1888], pp. 14 and 108.
Examples of use of prime mover
1. "You were not the prime mover in this venture." Sentencing Mansfield, he went on: "You were the prime mover in this venture.
2. Dennis Hastert (R–Ill.), prime mover of the fence.
3. Lawrence, a prime mover behind the atomic bomb project.
4. But the abolitionists‘ prime mover, its powerhouse, was Thomas Clarkson.
5. Synergy seems to be the prime mover for the merger.