The transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)

Usage examples of relocation.

She had just returned from duty with the team informing the largest of the human primitivist communities of their imminent relocation, and trying to secure their voluntary cooperation.

Morocco was tough and getting tougher, but violently anti-Israel, sometime Maoist-leaning Algeria made any relocation assignment practically a suicide mission.

July twelfth Norman Ashkenazi drove the old Ford of the Israeli relocation team from Sousse to Ez-Zahra to tell Sharon Hoyt that it was Bastille Day and they ought to celebrate by having a picnic and going to the beach.

The Bahamian government and the medical community on the island have been very supportive of our relocation.

Indian Relocation Act exiled them from their land-all the Choctaw and Chickamauga and Cherokee and Chickasaw-and U.

When they had first arrived, Sela had questioned them as to how they had found the hideaway, so as to know whether or not their security was threatened and a relocation necessary.

He still wins too often for my comfort and each day I fear the men will flush him out in his use of relocation.

In spite of the relocation of the family out West, the Ramseys still essentially considered themselves Atlantans, and Patsy, a native West Virginian who had represented the state in the Miss America pageant, missed many aspects of the Southern lifestyle.

Besides, I expect that he might have hit a bit more resistance if his realm had been in sunnier climes and he was proposing relocation to somewhere in the Frozen North.

Plantation, but it was discovered that the White House had already taken the name to use as a codeword for emergency relocation.

When he had been demoted, Buck had considered the relocation from New York to Chicago a positive turn—he would get to see more of her, he'd be in a good church, get good training, have a core of friends.

When he had been demoted, Buck had considered the relocation from New York to Chicago a positive turn-he would get to see more of her, he'd be in a good church, get good training, have a core of friends.

Only to Bethany Beach every summer, and that was not so much a trip as a kind of relocation of home base, with Sarah sunbathing and Ethan joining other Baltimore boys, also relocated, and Macon happily tightening all the doorknobs in their rented cottage or unsticking the windows or-one blissful year-solving a knotty problem he'd discovered in the plumbing.

There are also the Brunswick Shriners, Moral Regurgitation, Citizens against Infant Sexuality, the Crack House Integration of the Black Lotus Society, the Misplaced Bolivian Wild Animal Relocation Fund, the Laurel Foundation for the Recognition of Unique Achievement, the Gould Charitable Trust for Dynamic Population Control, the Patrio-Psychotic Anarcho-Materialism Study Group and the Sovereign State of Confusion.

Then Hvirr re-alized that what he and Emni had seen on the news was happening to others, on this continent of Mendaissa-the forced relocations that had seemed so unnecessary, so sad, so distant-were distant no longer.