Dictionary

relocation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪʃən/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English location English relocation From re- + location.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of moving from one place to another.
   • The relocation is part of Yum’s broader plans to have just two US headquarters for its restaurants, which also includes Irvine, California-based Taco Bell and Habit Burger. 2025 February 19, Jordan Valinsky, “KFC is leaving Kentucky”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2025:
   • He was also entitled to a relocation payment but has chosen not to take it. 2020 June 17, “Network News: Byford appointed to top London transport post”, in Rail, page 16:
   • The work to deliver an 18tph service involves relocation of four signals and associated equipment to improve signal spacing. 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 28:
   • Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves […]. 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69:
2. (countable, uncountable) Renewal of a lease.
3. (countable, uncountable) The assigning of addresses to variables either at linkage editing, or at runtime.
   • A peculiarity of ECOFF relocation entries is that even on 32-bit machines, they're 10 bytes long, which means that on machines that require aligned data, the linker can't just load the entire relocation table into a memory array[…] 2000, John R. Levine, Linkers and Loaders, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 157:

Forms

Deriveds

relocational · photorelocation

Relateds

resettlement

Synonyms

removal · move

Translations (45)

uk пересе́лення (moving to another place) · fr délocalisation (moving to another place) · hu lakhelyváltoztatás (moving to another place) · be перасяле́нне (moving to another place) · es translado (moving to another place) · mk преместување (moving to another place) · sk presídlenie (moving to another place) · pl relokacja (moving to another place) · es mudanza (moving to another place) · cs stěhování (moving to another place) · cmn 移動 /移动 (moving to another place) · es mudamiento (disused) (moving to another place) · de Übersiedlung (moving to another place) · pms tramud (moving to another place) · pl przeprowadzka (moving to another place) · sl premestitev (moving to another place) · ja 引っ越し (moving to another place) · ru релока́ция (moving to another place) · ko 이동 (moving to another place) · id relokasi (moving to another place) · pl przemieszczenie (moving to another place) · mr थारेपालट (moving to another place) · ru перее́зд (moving to another place) · uk пере́їзд (moving to another place) · sk presťahovanie (moving to another place) · cs přemístění (moving to another place) · de Umsiedlung (moving to another place) · nl verhuizing (moving to another place) · eo translokigo (moving to another place) · ja 移動 (moving to another place) · es traslado (moving to another place) · ko 이사 (moving to another place) · ms penempatan semula (moving to another place) · sk premiestnenie (moving to another place) · it tramutamento (moving to another place) · de Umzug (moving to another place) · bg преме́стване (moving to another place) · fr déménagement (moving to another place) · ru переселе́ние (moving to another place) · es reubicación (moving to another place) · cmn 搬遷 /搬迁 (moving to another place) · fi muutto (moving to another place) · be перае́зд (moving to another place) · ja 移転 (moving to another place) · ru перемеще́ние (moving to another place)