move on (or move someone on)
1Go or cause to leave somewhere: the Mounties briskly ordered them to move on...- The private landowner needs to obtain a court order to move them on from his or her land.
- A short time later police again had to speak to the youths in the post office carpark where they were skating around parked cars and again they were moved on.
- Some thought they were treated badly when they were moved on or told off for congregating in groups.
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move on)
Progress: British cinema has moved on in the last decade...- Clients can expand or move on when it is right for their business to do so.
- We must look to history and learn the lessons from the past for us to move on and grow as a community.
- She agreed that he appeared to have moved on and to have improved at school since she had met him.
See parent entry: move