RELOCATING Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

relocating

verb

present participle of relocate

as in moving

to change the place or position of those volumes have been relocated to the second floor of the library

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Recent Examples of relocating The family lived in Turner, Maine, before relocating to Buckfield. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026 The prologue starts in 1986 in Newfoundland with a family relocating, uprooting their lives in the most all-encompassing of ways, taking their entire home — propped up on a barge and steered by a lone motorboat — across a bay. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026 Nine-year-old Calvin Penney (Azriel Dalman) and his family are relocating from Little Pot Rock to a slightly larger island, Snook’s Arm. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 The factory became a Dallas landmark in 2001 before relocating in 2007. — Alexis Guerrero, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Attorneys general in Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska claim TP-Link never truly severed ties with its Chinese business in 2024 after relocating its global HQ to Irvine, California. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2026 As a member of Laurence’s group LJE (Laurence Jones Ensemble), Jackson began playing clubs in New York before relocating west in the late ‘70s to join the California funk band Mystic Merlin. — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2026 Brooke Black was raised in Chicago and spent years in New York, London, and Los Angeles before relocating to Denmark. — Brooke Black, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026 One requires consent for medicating nursing facility seniors, one allows out of state therapists 30 days to treat patients relocating or traveling to the state and one provides training fair wages for wildfire mitigation workers. — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for relocating

Verb

In this moving memoir Levy details the reality of reclaiming autonomy post-divorce.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 16 Oct. 2026
Hickel also found himself back behind the camera, moving a puppet frame by frame.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of moving

Verb

Doctors then discussed removing his tongue, according to Rockett.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
The 71-year-old first American pope was admitted to the Gemelli hospital on Tuesday with doctors removing a nodule that was determined to be pulmonary adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer.

— Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of removing

Verb

From Nanjing Port, the bunker vessel took over the rest of the journey, carrying 1,000 metric tons of clean fuel before transferring it safely to Mineral Europa.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
Gifting or transferring shares after a sale or offering has progressed too far leaves room for the Internal Revenue Service to challenge the valuation.

— Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of transferring

Verb

Jarvis sacrifices himself to stabilize Vision’s mind, deleting his code and shifting his processing power to the other AIs to keep them functional.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
This new study reveals that experimental niobium-titanium alloys can defy this rule at a freezing -253°C (20 kelvin) by spontaneously shifting their atomic structure to form mirror-image twins and generate fresh defects.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026