MOVING IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moving in mean? 

• MOVING IN (noun)
  The noun MOVING IN has 1 sense:

1. the act of occupying or taking possession of a building

  Familiarity information: MOVING IN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOVING IN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of occupying or taking possession of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

moving in; occupancy; occupation

Context example:

occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal

Hypernyms ("moving in" is a kind of...):

acquiring; getting (the act of acquiring something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moving in"):

preoccupancy; preoccupation (the act of taking occupancy before someone else does)

 Context examples 

“Someone is moving in that room,” said Holmes in a whisper, his gaunt and eager face thrust forward to the window-pane.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every sign will love this day, but you will enjoy it more because Mars and Jupiter will both be moving in Capricorn.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Far away, a black dot, we could see a vehicle moving in our direction.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Blood normally flowed through the channels from the skull’s interior to the bone marrow, but after a stroke, neutrophils were seen moving in the opposite direction to get to damaged tissue.

(Researchers unearth secret tunnels between the skull and the brain, National Institutes of Health)

In their new study, the researchers, along with Dr. Hyun Koo at the University of Pennsylvania, further examined fibroblasts moving in a 3-D matrix.

(New Mechanism of Cell Movement Revealed, NIH)

"Not a great deal, to be sure," agreed Bessie: "at any rate, a beauty like Miss Georgiana would be more moving in the same condition."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When the doctor had wormed this secret from him on the afternoon of the attack, and when next morning he saw the anchorage deserted, he had gone to Silver, given him the chart, which was now useless—given him the stores, for Ben Gunn's cave was well supplied with goats' meat salted by himself—given anything and everything to get a chance of moving in safety from the stockade to the two-pointed hill, there to be clear of malaria and keep a guard upon the money.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They had seen me cut the cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift or fall foul on each other: but when they perceived the whole fleet moving in order, and saw me pulling at the end, they set up such a scream of grief and despair as it is almost impossible to describe or conceive.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Aye, that may suit your humble ideas of yourself;—I know what a modest creature you are; but it will not satisfy your friends to have you taking up with any thing that may offer, any inferior, commonplace situation, in a family not moving in a certain circle, or able to command the elegancies of life.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The wise woman said: There is some enchantment behind it, listen very early some morning if anything is moving in the room, and if you see anything, no matter what it is, throw a white cloth over it, and then the magic will be stopped.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)