mobilitymo‧bil‧i‧ty /məʊˈbɪləti $ moʊ-/ ●○○ noun [uncountable] 
social mobilitymobility of There is greater mobility of labour (=movement of workers) between jobs and areas.upward/downward mobility jobs and opportunities for upward mobility2the ability to move easily OPP immobility: It improves the strength and mobility of joints. The key to the army’s effectiveness is its increased mobility.mobility allowance British English (=money paid to sick or disabled people to help pay for transport)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Pawlawksi will have to lose weight to improve his mobility.
- Shuttles will give mobility to employees without cars.
- The weakening of bone tissue has a considerable effect on an elderly person's mobility.
- There is a large degree of mobility among public accountants.
- You'll experience some loss of mobility for a few weeks after the operation.
- Employees therefore had a vested interest in remaining with their firm since job mobility was restricted.
- Greater mobility has bred greater volatility.
- Social mobility and elite circulation might increase, and the ruling group might become more heterogeneous, but government must remain oligarchic.
- The legal profession served as a means of upward social mobility for Burghers, Sinhalese and Tamils.
- These large gametes will inevitably be produced in smaller numbers and they will lack mobility.
- These systems provide users with an unprecedented degree of mobility and flexibility.
Longman Language Activatorable to move
especially British someone who is mobile can move and walk around normally: · He won't be mobile for some time. It's a bad knee sprain.· Ethel needed help on the stairs, but was otherwise mobile.
: mobile library/shop/clinic etc a library, shop etc that is in a vehicle and which moves around from place to place: · Remote areas are served by a number of weekly mobile clinics.· Neuman revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour.· The community currently receives service from a rural mobile library.
especially written someone's ability to move - use this especially about people who are very old, injured etc: · You'll experience some loss of mobility for a few weeks after the operation.· The weakening of bone tissue has a considerable effect on an elderly person's mobility.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY social mobility There is greater mobility of labour (=movement of workers) between jobs and areas. jobs and opportunities for upward mobility
1the ability to move easily from one job, area, or social class to another OPP immobility: social mobility There is greater mobility of labour (=movement of workers) between jobs and areas. jobs and opportunities for upward mobility British English (=money paid to sick or disabled people to help pay for transport)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The working class is more uniform in origins than ever before because downward mobility has declined.· Short Cuts captures the moment when the postwar economic boom began its decline into downward mobility.· Unemployment is also a significant cause of downward mobility in Britain.· This suggests that, inpart, the housewife's dissatisfaction with her work is a function of downward social mobility.· Students were experiencing a sense of decline, both in terms of material and social positions, a form of downward social mobility.· It has also resulted in downward mobility for a significant proportion of the working class.· Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility.
· Figure 3 indicates that complexes exhibiting the same electrophoretic mobility were generated with all three extracts.· The low-density lipoproteins, also known as the beta lipoproteins have an electrophoretic mobility which is slightly slower than the prebeta fraction.
· Evidence for this is provided by the relatively low rates of geographical mobility in Britain as compared with other countries.· This project is intended to explore the complex relationship between geographical mobility and voting.· This brings us to our third point, that of geographical mobility as it affects different social groups.· Though geographical mobility is possible, to move means severing all the social ties which the miner has built up.· In areas of geographical mobility people may be neighbours who are culturally strangers.· These decisions may well also be affected by geographical mobility both for employment and retirement.
· These changes, together with a greater mobility in the workforce made possible by an expansion of car ownership, created a vacuum.· Another factor cited for low voter turnout by young people was their greater mobility.· The greater your mobility the less likely you will be to suffer aches and pains brought on by stiffness.· Above all I loved the feeling of great mobility, of continually heading off to new and different places.· Public-sector housing provision, which might have allowed for greater mobility, declined in the 1970s and 1980s.· But birds, with their great mobility, have evolved to cope with many of those problems.· Abrams referred to greater mobility and greater choice as weakening the traditional neighbour's ties.· Technical advances in fleece continue apace such as with the stretch version which gives improved insulation and greater mobility through a closer fit.
· Some of these ways entail high spatial mobility and others do not.· The result is that their high social mobility does not entail high levels of long distance spatial mobility.· They should be designed to the highest mobility standards, making them easy and safe to move around in.
· The experience of these writers was seen as emblematic of the increased social mobility that characterized post-war Britain.· This increased mobility is seen by Naville as a source of great dissatisfaction.
· Tied housing therefore acted as a brake on occupational mobility.· Greater childrearing participation does not generally translate into lower occupational mobility for fathers.· These repercussions generally follow because of induced changes in patterns of migration, commuting and occupational mobility.
· The most basic of these relates to personal physical mobility, which can be impaired by physical handicap or old age.· So public housing fails to provide for personal mobility in changing relationships, or for different needs that people may have.· Co-ordinated public transport planning; Personal mobility with particular emphasis on disabled people.· Accessibility as a concept is discussed in chapter 6; here it is sufficient to mention its implications for personal mobility.· These households, already disadvantaged in terms of personal mobility, can thus be further disadvantaged.
· Increased social mobility has further added to the isolation of older people.· Sport constituted an avenue of social mobility for any slave willing and capable enough to pit his sporting skills against another.· And so we look, with increasing desperation, toward the institutions that have fostered social mobility in the past.· Department of Social Security mobility payments to buy or lease a car.· That was why the great forces of social mobility were failing for this generation of the poor.· The result is that their high social mobility does not entail high levels of long distance spatial mobility.· The experience of these writers was seen as emblematic of the increased social mobility that characterized post-war Britain.
· Some of these ways entail high spatial mobility and others do not.· High levels of spatial mobility are involved as he is regularly posted to regions where the multinational is operating.· Social mobility, therefore, is again closely linked to spatial mobility.· The result is that their high social mobility does not entail high levels of long distance spatial mobility.· However, there remain major differences in levels of spatial mobility for different social groups.· Taking, firstly, class-based urban and regional sociology on its own terms, social and spatial mobility is a major deficiency.· Indeed, the recent decline in spatial mobility means that daily life is increasingly limited to relatively small regions.· Peasants certainly lacked the spatial mobility required for regular participation in the politics of the realm.
· Neither is upward mobility, rising income or independence a necessary consequence of their diligence.· In a society that valued upward mobility, formal education became a gateway to economic and social success.· More recently, multinationals and foreign capital, with all their implications, have made vertical upward mobility difficult.· Jeff is already a victim but his actions could alter the balance and restore the upward mobility of his career. 2.· The legal profession served as a means of upward social mobility for Burghers, Sinhalese and Tamils.· He is a wholly conscious arriviste, half proud and half ashamed of both his middle-class background and his upward mobility.· Self-improvement and upward mobility became suspect in the general Sixties backlash against bourgeois materialism.
NOUN· Free car parking to people in receipt of mobility allowance and claiming exemption from road fund duty.· These are child benefits, industrial injuries and death benefits, certain invalidity benefits, and attendance and mobility allowances.· Female speaker Children under 5 aren't eligible for mobility allowance to help the parents with transport.· The mobility allowance amounted initially to £10 a week and was recognised as anything but adequate.· We will increase Invalidity Benefit by 15%, extend mobility allowance and base payments on medical records rather than National Insurance contributions.
· The introduction of the Resettlement Transfer Scheme in 1948 was the beginning of post-war labour mobility policies.· Efficiency With labour mobility, inefficiency can arise from fiscal spending in different localities.· Clearly the labour mobility programmes have transferred fewer workers than the number of jobs created by regional policies.· The abolition of serfdom would therefore be a necessary precondition of free labour mobility.· Firstly, harmonisation of national policies, especially in areas where it offers obvious advantages, e.g. labour mobility.· This ties health insurance to employment, which impedes labour mobility and is unfair to the self-employed and unemployed.· This is another indication that regional and labour mobility policies are not always in conflict with each other.· Because labour mobility between industries ensures that wage rates are equated in the two industries.
· Electrophoretic mobility shift assays Oct-11 and Oct-2 proteins were expressed in E.coli as protein A-fusions.
VERB· Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility.
· If globalisation is to mean anything, it has to give rights of mobility to labour as well as goods and money.
· All this added to the general upheavals in the Hindu population, increasing its social mobility.· Much can be done to increase mobility and to ease pain and discomfort.· This has further increased the importance of mobility.
social mobilitymobility of There is greater mobility of labour (=movement of workers) between jobs and areas.upward/downward mobility jobs and opportunities for upward mobility2the ability to move easily OPP immobility: It improves the strength and mobility of joints. The key to the army’s effectiveness is its increased mobility.mobility allowance British English (=money paid to sick or disabled people to help pay for transport)