move on
— phrasal verb with move uk/muːv/us/muːv/verb
(NEW PLACE)
C1 to leave the place where you are staying and go somewhere else:
I've lived in this town long enough - it's time to move on.
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Changing homes & moving
- asylum seeker
- diaspora
- diaspora
- economic migrant
- emigrate
- immigration
- migrant
- move out
- mover
- moving
- pull up stakes idiom
- remover
- resettle
- residence
- settle
- shelter
- stake
- stick
- transfer
- up sticks idiom
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(NEW ACTIVITY)
C1 to start a new activity:
I'd done the same job for years and felt it was time to move on.
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Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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(EMOTIONALLY)
to accept that a situation has changed and be ready to deal with new experiences:
Since he and his girlfriend broke up, he's been finding it difficult to move on.
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Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- polymorphous
- reverse
- swing
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
- turn (sb/sth) into sb/sth
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