RELOCATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relocate mean? 

• RELOCATE (verb)
  The verb RELOCATE has 2 senses:

1. become established in a new location

2. move or establish in a new location

  Familiarity information: RELOCATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELOCATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they relocate    ... he / she / it relocates   
Past simple: relocated   
Past participle: relocated   
-ing form: relocating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become established in a new location

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Our company relocated to the Midwest

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move or establish in a new location

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

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

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))

 Context examples 

I don’t think you will have to move again now, not unless you have a special opportunity to do so, such as to relocate to take advantage of a job offer.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A surgical procedure for infertility related to tubal factors where the ovary is relocated to within the uterine cavity.

(Ovarian Implantation, NCI Thesaurus)

However, when the animals were relocated to a new facility, the frequency of lesion formation decreased to almost zero.

(Researchers connect brain blood vessel lesions to intestinal bacteria, NIH)

EWS interacts with FAK2 and relocates from cytoplasm to ribosomes upon FAK2 activation.

(Ewing Sarcoma Breakpoint Region 1 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Moreover, Embrapa's old stock of over 124,000 seeds will relocate to the new facility.

(LatAm's largest gene bank unveiled in Brasília, Agência BRASIL)

If the hip is dislocated, it will relocate with an audible clunk, which is a positive result for this test.

(Ortolani Maneuver, NCI Thesaurus)

Over 2,000 residents near Mount Apo in Kidapawan City have been relocated to other villages in the city since Wednesday. 76 villages were affected according to NDRRMC report on Saturday, which figured 21 injured individuals in Davao del Sur, 36 in North

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)