mobility.

1. The capacity for physical movement or for moving between places.

2. Movement or capacity to move between social or economic positions.

3. The ability or tendency to move between jobs, occupations or labor-market locations.

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Words that belong together

• physical mobility
• mobility of a population

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Physical mobility was assessed through the relevant tasks rather than one observed gesture.

The population’s mobility depended on access to transport as well as distance.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: social explanation, distributional analysis, population description, concept distinction. Disciplines: social science, economics, public policy. Commonness: moderately common.