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moveverb

uk/muːv/us/muːv/

move verb (CHANGE POSITION)

A2 [ I or T ] to (cause to) change position:

I'm so cold I can't move my fingers.
Will you help me move this table to the back room?
Can we move (= change the time of) the meeting from 2 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. ?
Don't move! Stay right where you are.
I thought I could hear someone moving about/around upstairs.
If you move along/over/up (= go further to the side, back, or front) a little, Tess can sit next to me.
Police officers at the scene of the accident were asking people to move along/on (= to go to a different place).
Come on, it's time we were moving (= time for us to leave).
Let's stay here tonight, then move on (= continue our journey) tomorrow morning.

[ I or T ] to change the position of one of the pieces used in a board game:

In chess, the pieces can only move in certain directions.

More examples

  • 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:

We're moving to Paris.
They've bought a new house, but it will need a lot of work before they can move into it/move in.
I hear Paula has moved in with her boyfriend (= gone to live in his house).
The couple next door moved away (= went to live somewhere else) last year.
A lot of businesses are moving out of London because it's too expensive.
move house B1 UK

to leave your home in order to live in a new one:

We're moving house next week.

More examples

  • 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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Changing homes & moving

move verb (PROGRESS)

[ I or T ] to (cause to) progress, change, or happen in a particular way or direction:

The judge's decision will allow the case to move forward.
If you want to move ahead in your career, you'll have to work harder.
Share prices moved up/down slowly yesterday.
Sophie has been moved up/down a grade at school.
It's time this company moved into (= started to take advantage of the benefits of) the digital age.

More examples

  • 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:

[ + obj + to infinitive ] formal I can't imagine what could have moved him to say such a thing.

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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:

He's made up his mind, and nothing you can say will move him on the issue.
More and more people are movingaway from/towards vegetarianism.

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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:

She said that she was deeply moved by all the letters of sympathy she had received.
It was such a sad film that it moved him to tears (= made him cry).

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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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Inspiring feelings in others

move verb (SELL)

[ I or T ] informal to sell:

No one wants to buy these toys - we just can't move them.
This new shampoo is moving really fast.

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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:

She moves in/among a very small circle of people.

move verb (SUGGEST)

[ I or T ] specialized politics, law to suggest something, especially formally at a meeting or in a law court:

A vote was just about to be taken when someone stood up and said that they wished to move an amendment.
[ + that ] I move that the proposal be accepted.
Your Honour, we wish to move for dismissal of the charges.

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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:

The doctor asked him if he'd moved his bowels that day.

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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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Idiom(s)

move heaven and earth
move it!
move on to bigger/better things
move with the times
not move a muscle

Phrasal verb(s)

move sb/sth in
move in on sth/sb
move off sth/on (to sth)
move on
move out

movenoun

uk/muːv/us/muːv/

move noun (CHANGE OF POSITION)

C2 [ S ] an act of moving:

She held the gun to his head and said, "One move and you're dead!"
I hate the way my boss watches my every move (= watches everything I do).

[ 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:

It takes a long time to learn all the moves in chess.
It's your move.

More examples

  • 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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Board games

move noun (CHANGE OF PLACE)

C1 [ C ] an occasion when you go to live or work in a different place:

We've had four moves in three years.

More examples

  • 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:

Buying those shares was a good move.
This move towards improving childcare facilities has been widely welcomed.
[ + to infinitive ] The city council is making a move to improve traffic flow in the city.
make the first move

to be the first to take action:

Neither side seems prepared to make the first move towards reaching a peace agreement.

informal to start a romantic or sexual relationship with someone:

She's liked him for a long time, but doesn't want to make the first move.

More examples

  • 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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Idiom(s)

be on the move
get a move on
make a move

moveverb

uk/muːv/us

[ I or T ] to go to a different place in order to live or work, or to make someone do this:

The company announced it would be moving staff from Houston to Dallas early next year.
move to/into a place I got a promotion last year that meant moving to Brussels.
For many years the trend has been for people to move from rural to urban areas.

[ I or T ] if a store, office, factory, etc. moves, or if someone moves it, it becomes situated in another place:

move to/from a place The bank's headquarters have now moved to Amsterdam.
move offices/headquarters/operations Airline operations are in the process of being moved to Terminal 2.

[ I or T ] to change the job that you do, or to make someone do this:

If you're not happy working in your current team, we can move you.
move sb to sth After only six months at the firm, he was moved to sales.
move to/from/into sth She wants to move into corporate finance.

[ I ] to take action or make progress:

One financial analyst said the court decision could prompt the company to move more quickly on the issue.
move ahead/forward/away from sth The state is moving ahead with legislation reforms for small businesses.

[ I or T ] COMMERCE if a product moves, or if a store, company, etc. moves it, it sells quickly:

Our latest range of Internet TVs is really moving.

formal MEETINGS to officially suggest something during a meeting:

move that I move that we adopt the resolution.

Phrasal verb(s)

move in
move on
move out
move to/towards sth
move up

movenoun

uk/muːv/us

[ C ] action that a person or organization takes in order to achieve something:

a move to do sth Moves to block free access to music on the Internet have met with limited success.
a move by sb/sth Economists said a move by Japan to cut interest rates in isolation would have little effect on currency levels.
make a move (to do sth) Moves are being made to help future doctors make objective decisions.
first/next/latest move Our next move will crucially depend on the latest figures for inflation.
a bold/strategic/dramatic move Strategic moves announced with the interim results should strengthen the balance sheet and improve cash flow.
a move comes/follows The company's move comes as part of a wider industry crackdown on insurance fraud.
applaud/approve/condemn a move Investors are expected to applaud the move.

[ S ] the process of changing from one system, activity, etc. to another:

a move to/into sth Environmentalists have welcomed the move to congestion charging.
a move (away) from sth We have incorporated several new concepts in recent months, including a move from commission-only staff to a team bonus structure.

[ C ] the process of changing the place where you live or work, or trading in a new place:

a move from/to/into a place The move into Italy is part of a wider international expansion.

See also

block move
career move
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