relocation
- 01 B2 Upper Intermediate
the act of moving your home or your business to a new place.
the act of moving to a new place of residence or business. Often used in professional contexts regarding employee transfers.
Simple“The company offered to pay for her relocation to the London office.”
In context“The relocation of the corporate headquarters to a smaller city was intended to reduce overhead costs and improve the employees' quality of life.”
UsageOften used with the verb 'oversee' or 'facilitate'.
Synonyms - 02 C1 Advanced
the process of moving data or programs to different parts of a computer's memory.
the process of assigning load-time or run-time addresses to code and data so that a program can execute from a specific memory area.
Simple“The operating system handles the relocation of programs as they are loaded into memory.”
In context“Dynamic relocation allows the system to move a process from one memory partition to another without interrupting its execution.”
UsageUsually functions as an uncountable noun in this technical sense.
Synonyms - 03 C2 Proficiency
the act of starting a new rental agreement for the same property.
the renewal or extension of a lease agreement. This usage is less common in general English and is primarily found in legal or real estate contexts.
Simple“The tenant requested a relocation of the lease for another three years.”
In context“The contract included a clause regarding the automatic relocation of the lease should neither party provide notice of termination.”
Antonyms
“They could return to their countries of origin or seek relocation elsewhere.”
“However his relocation, via Belgium and France, is proving difficult to co-ordinate.”
From re- + location.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.