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plural immobiles
One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere). quotations examples
[…] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]
1963, Highway Research Record
Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.
1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, page 132
One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The immobiles brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used […]
2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers