relocate

UK/ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪt/US/ˌɹiˈloʊ̯keɪ̯t/

verbB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,539 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: relocated, relocating, relocates

To relocate is to move a home or a business to another place. Relocate abroad, relocate the office, agree to relocate.

It is the corporate word for moving, and the softness is the point, since it makes uprooting a family sound like an administrative step. A relocation package is what a company pays to make somebody agree to relocate.

Definitions of relocate

1verbrelocateTo move a home or a business to another place.B2
“The company is relocating its head office from the capital to a smaller city.”

relocate is a moving.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*stel-
Latin
locātus
English
locate
English, today
relocate

Built from

locō · Latin — to place
locus · Latin — place

From re- + locate. locate Latin locātus, perfect passive participle of locō (“to place”) (see -ate), from locus (“place”) + -ō. Cognate with French louer; see also local and lieu.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

relocate in the wild

During the course of the season it emerged that the Cleveland Browns would relocate to Baltimore for the 1996 season.
1995 NFL season
In many cases, self-relocating code is also a form of self-modifying code.
Self-relocation
After looking at a possible expansion franchise, the decision to relocate the Las Vegas Posse to Miami became the preferred choice to land a CFL team in Miami.
Miami Manatees (CFL)
On December 16, 2013, Cleveland Scene reported that the team would relocate to Toledo, Ohio, as the Toledo Crush before the 2014 season.
Toledo Crush

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the locō family

locate

relocate — used about once every 2,648 pages · #7,539 · point at the bar for the others

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