relocation

UK/ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪʃən/US/ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪʃən/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,352 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: relocations

Relocation is moving to a new place because of your job. A relocation package, offer relocation, relocation costs.

A relocation package is what an employer pays towards the move, and what it covers is negotiable and worth negotiating. The word is corporate and slightly bloodless, which is part of why it is used — moving house is what it actually describes. Note relocate, and locate, from the Latin for a place.

Definitions of relocation

1nounrelocationMoving to a new place because of your job.B2+
“The company paid for our relocation when my husband was transferred to Glasgow.”

relocation is a moving.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*stel-
Latin
locatio — a placing
English
location
English, today
relocation

Built from

locare · Latin — to place, put, set, let
locus · Latin — a place

From re- + location. location Borrowed from Latin locatio (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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