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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
relocate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ Polisario announced that its forces had begun to relocate in the assembly areas allocated to them for the period of the ceasefire.
▪ Forty staff chose to relocate to the Bristol area and continued their employment with Sun Life in the head office.
▪ Organisations may choose to relocate to a new area for a variety of reasons.
company
▪ We shall go on backing business in the region and encouraging companies to relocate here.
▪ The company relocated its premises to Huntingdon and asked Mr Rose to move to the new premises.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If rents continue to rise, many local businesses may decide to relocate.
▪ The federal government is offering attractive tax breaks to corporations that relocate in areas of high unemployment.
▪ We're relocating our educational software division to North Carolina.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At her right, in one of the dining-room chairs relocated for the occasion, sat our host, Harlan Nugent.
▪ Even so, it is not at all obvious how he relocates writing in relation to the history to which it had until then been opposed.
▪ Forty staff chose to relocate to the Bristol area and continued their employment with Sun Life in the head office.
▪ Los Angeles County, which has more than 100 separate contracts with private firms, has successfully relocated people within county government.
▪ Most disaster aid will continue to go to road building, housing and relocating people out of harm's predictable way.
▪ Organisations may choose to relocate to a new area for a variety of reasons.
▪ The Chrysler Center will relocate to Hansen Ford's current site.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relocate

Relocate \Re*lo"cate\ (r?-l?"k?t), v. t. To locate again.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
relocate

1822, transitive, "to move (something, originally a road) to another place," from re- "back, again" + locate (v.). Intransitive sense of "settle again" is from 1841. Related: Relocated; relocating.

Wiktionary
relocate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) to move (something) from one place to another. 2 (context intransitive English) to change one's domicile or place of business.

WordNet
relocate
  1. v. become established in a new location; "Our company relocated to the Midwest"

  2. move or establish in a new location; "We had to relocate the office because the rent was too high"

Usage examples of "relocate".

Kosovars were ambushed, Terry automatically relocated his team to a new base camp, one known only to his team.

Mike would be leaving on the weekend to relocate in the town of Astragal, Indiana.

They were probably cousins to the racoons Alex had relocated from the kitchen to Cabin Eight this morning.

Should it bear out, Director Scaur and I will be seeking authorization to relocate the defectors here, to Coruscant.

Ramsay Kent, relocated Yorkshire baronet, geologist, and adopted Absarokee married to his aunt, Hazard studied geology under the noted Swiss naturalist Agassiz, who had been invited to deliver a course of lectures at Harvard in 1847, subsequently had been offered a chair, and had stayed.

Emigrant Aid Society in Massachusetts to encourage antislavery settlers to relocate in Kansas.

When it became clear that all failed to respond acceptably to the standard medications like Prozac, Clozapine, Risperidone, all thirteen had been incarcerated at different institutions, were being steadily relocated to Blackwater as Dr.

Depending on how you looked at it, life there was either a catastrophic deracination or a useful dress rehearsal for life in the American inner cities to which many of its inhabitants would ultimately relocate.

He abjured his Greekness and relocated the navel of his empire because he thought like a king.

I wanted to give the cast and crew plenty of warning, in case they had to find work or relocate their families.

Relocating him took some moments, in part because he was but one among so many, in part because -- as I saw now when she smoothed her hair -- the white-gowned woman standing before him, back turned meward, was not Exhibit 201 but live Andromeda.

McCulloch had relocated to Chicago to take a position as director of the new research laboratory of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of Illinois Medical School.

Now for the cynics out there, who might still be labouring under the mistaken opinion that relocating is merely thieving by another name, let this be said: Icarus had not become a relocator by choice.

Cathy bounced up beside him, pressed her chest into his whilst her lower tongues relocated his genitals.

A structure too massive to relocate, too delicate to risk disassembling, too dangerous and disruptive to leave where it was.