to move house
3
2.1
- phrasal verb
- UK
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- In other news, we are moving house tomorrow.
- move house three times
And I think dealing with moving house, I'm a very rooted person.
- And I think dealing with moving house, I'm a very rooted person.
- You move house, there is a downside cost to moving house.
- So let's see what's on the connect list, Let's say helped Jake and Molly move house, for example.
- I think we might move house one day, depending on where Fraser goes to senior school.
- But if you are new here, if you haven't watched my videos in a while, I have just moved house and this is my filming room or office I guess.
- And you know, by the time I was one, we'd moved house three times, he'd left and I was primarily raised by my mum.
- Because I've been quite busy I have moved house and so my favourites have been scattered around in sellotape boxes.
- It's just if you're moving house or you need to build on your kind of cooking, baking utensils, it's just the perfect place to go.
- I with moving house to move into the Bloomsbury flat a couple of years ago, things like school reports came to the surface.
Examples
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I think we might move house one day, depending on where Fraser goes to senior school.
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On Sunday, 5/12/2010, I lost my job on Wednesday, and I need to move house in the next couple of weeks.
Blog text (30) -
Are you sure moving house was the right thing to do?
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My dad lost them when we moved house.
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Now we are looking to move house as we have little space for our baby daughter and no land.
Blog text (12) -
One reason is we're moving house within the next couple of months and want to make the move as easy as possible.
Blog text (11) -
I guess she just plain had enough of moving house.
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When patients are moving house, registering with a new GP is probably pretty low down on their 'to do' list.
Academic text (2015) -
This in itself is a stressful event: a recent survey suggested that moving house was more stressful than bankruptcy or divorce.
Academic text (2015) -
We have just moved house to 7 Cromarty Close.
Synonyms
147
3.7
Move to a new place and start living or working there
15
4.3
Move to a new place to live when something forces you to leave your home
5
7.2
Leave home and move to a new place
Antonyms
How Far
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to change one's place of residence' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'move' (to change location) with 'house' (home/building). This is a straightforward compositional verb + object construction (move + house) found across languages and follows ordinary English patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Move house comes from the simple picture of packing your furniture and boxes and carrying them out of one house into another, so move is the action and house is your home. That's why move house means 'to change where you live'.