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RELOCATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move or establish in a new location

Example:

We had to relocate the office because the rent was too high

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "relocate" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

relocate (become established in a new location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

relocation (the act of changing your residence or place of business)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become established in a new location

Example:

Our company relocated to the Midwest

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "relocate" is one way to...):

move (change residence, affiliation, or place of employment)

Verb group:

relocate (move or establish in a new location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

relocation (the act of changing your residence or place of business)

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

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