moveverb
uk/muːv/us/muːv/move verb (CHANGE POSITION)
A2 [ I or T ] to (cause to) change position:
[ I or T ] to change the position of one of the pieces used in a board game:
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- You can move the cursor either by using the mouse or by using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
- I didn't want to move in case I woke her up.
- In the summer, the shepherds move their sheep up into the hills .
- Could I possibly ask you to move your chair a little?
- The poor things were kept in small cages without room to move.
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General words for movement
- betake
- budge
- budge up
- circulate
- come
- gangway!
- go around
- head
- locomotion
- manoeuvre
- mill around
- mobility
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- pass
- round
- slip
- steer
- sway
- travel
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move verb (CHANGE PLACE)
B1 [ I ] to go to a different place to live or work:
to leave your home in order to live in a new one:
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- When we retire, we're going to move to a warmer climate .
- We would dearly love to sell our flat and move to the country.
- They decided to move abroad and make a fresh start.
- Now that the children are settled at school , we don't really want to move again.
- After nine years in Cambridge, Susannah and Guy moved to Watlington, where they lived happily ever after.
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Transferring and transporting objects
- bearer
- bike
- borne
- bring
- budge
- bus
- call for sb
- drop
- ferry
- freight
- pick sb/sth up
- put sb down somewhere
- road haulage
- route
- spirit
- tear 1
- tear sb away
- tote
- transport
- transportation
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move verb (PROGRESS)
[ I or T ] to (cause to) progress, change, or happen in a particular way or direction:
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- I don't really like working on a computer, but you have to move with the times, I suppose.
- Traffic moved forward at a crawl.
- The company has moved into plastics.
- The procession moved through the streets at a steady pace.
- By lap 26, Hamilton had moved into second position.
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Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- pan
- rise
- shape
- simmer
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
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move verb (CAUSE)
[ T ] to cause someone to take action:
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Encouraging and urging on
- abet
- barrack for sb
- bring
- bring sb out
- buddy
- cheer
- chin
- get in there! idiom
- get out of here! idiom
- good/great/lovely stuff! idiom
- goose
- hide your light under a bushel idiom
- invitation
- mentor
- prepare
- prepare the ground idiom
- prod
- promote
- promotion
- shoulder
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move verb (CHANGE OPINION)
[ I or T ] to (cause to) change an opinion or the way in which you live or work:
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Changing your mind
- 180
- about-turn
- back away
- back out
- backpedal
- cave in
- change of heart idiom
- change your tune idiom
- climbdown
- cold
- come round
- oscillate
- pendulum
- pull
- pull (sb/sth) out
- realign
- think better of sth idiom
- time-server
- U-turn
- volte-face
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move verb (FEELINGS)
B2 [ T ] to cause someone to have strong feelings, such as sadness, sympathy, happiness, or admiration:
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Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side of your face idiom
- bite
- haunt
- hit/touch a (raw) nerve idiom
- horrify
- hurt sb's feelings idiom
- hurtful
- laugh
- mess
- nose
- shake
- take sb aback
- tear 1
- tear sb apart
- tear sb's heart out idiom
- torture
- traumatize
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move verb (SELL)
[ I or T ] informal to sell:
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Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- export
- pile
- pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realization
- serve
- shift
- supersize
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
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move verb (BE WITH PEOPLE)
[ I + adv/prep ] to spend time with people:
move verb (SUGGEST)
[ I or T ] specialized politics, law to suggest something, especially formally at a meeting or in a law court:
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Suggestions & proposals
- about
- float
- get at sth
- grab
- hint
- how about...? idiom
- how does... grab you? idiom
- how/what about...? idiom
- indication
- it wouldn't hurt you to do sth idiom
- might
- offer
- on the table idiom
- point sb towards/in the direction of sth idiom
- posit
- postulate
- proposal
- put
- put ideas into sb's head idiom
- table
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move verb (PASS)
[ I or T ] polite word (used especially by doctors and nurses) to pass the contents of the bowels out of the body:
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Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion
- accident
- anal fissure
- bathroom
- be caught/taken short idiom
- bowel movement
- call of nature idiom
- cowpat
- crap
- droppings
- dump
- go to the bathroom idiom
- guano
- melaena
- motion
- movement
- pass
- poop
- regular
- shite
- turd
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movenoun
uk/muːv/us/muːv/move noun (CHANGE OF POSITION)
C2 [ S ] an act of moving:
[ C ] in some board games, a change of the position of one of the pieces used to play the game, or a change of position that is allowed by the rules, or a player's turn to move their piece:
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- She sat back for a minute to ponder her next move in the game.
- My cactus seems to be benefiting from its move from the living room to the kitchen windowsill.
- The cattle have had a move from the top field down into the meadow, I see.
- "Where have the reference books gone?" "Oh - they've had a move. They're by the door now."
- Agassi's move to the net was perfectly timed, and he is rewarded with two match points.
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General words for movement
- betake
- budge
- budge up
- circulate
- come
- gangway!
- go around
- head
- locomotion
- manoeuvre
- mill around
- mobility
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- pass
- round
- slip
- steer
- sway
- travel
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move noun (CHANGE OF PLACE)
C1 [ C ] an occasion when you go to live or work in a different place:
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- They helped us with our move to Norwich.
- We have had three office moves in five years.
- The move to Scotland was a big wrench for the children.
- The film follows one family's move to Spain.
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Changing homes & moving
- asylum seeker
- diaspora
- diaspora
- economic migrant
- emigrate
- immigration
- migrant
- migrate
- move on
- move out
- mover
- moving
- removalist
- remover
- resettle
- residence
- settle
- shelter
- stake
- stick
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move noun (ACTION)
C1 [ C ] an action taken to achieve something:
to be the first to take action:
informal to start a romantic or sexual relationship with someone:
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- It was a shrewd move to buy your house just before property prices started to rise.
- Quitting that job was the smartest move I ever made.
- The newspaper made the bold move of publishing the names of the men involved.
- "The children are getting rather bored, so shall we take them to the park?" "Yes, I think that would be a good move."
- It was a brave move to stand up and question the boss's figures, but you certainly made him notice you!
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Acting and acts
- (your) every move idiom
- -ation
- act/do sth on your own responsibility idiom
- action
- activity
- agency
- ant
- be up to sth idiom
- feel
- gambit
- get around to sth
- give yourself over/up to sth
- go about sth
- go about your business idiom
- go through with sth
- hand
- manoeuvring
- money
- talk the talk idiom
- up to
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