relocation

Examples

• All

• Three months later, they shipped him off to a relocation center.

  Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

• The government organized the relocation of families affected by the natural disaster to safer areas.

• Still we are prepared to discuss the details of the relocation of your people.

  Independents' Day (2017)

• Ever since I was a child, I knew that my parents were locked up during World War Two in a relocation camp in California.

• This is not a defense of relocation or the way the Native Americans have been treated.

  America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)

• They turned it into a relocation camp when the crisis was just beginning.

  War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

• Another change is the relocation of South Birmingham's two home treatment teams into the Oleaster building.

  Academic text (2008)

• The result was the relocation of the PLO power base to Lebanon.

  Academic text (2000)

• The government had tried to engineer this process of relocation, but it lacked the resources to implement such large-scale resettlement.

  Academic text (2008)

• Many tribal members participating in the relocation program simply remained in Phoenix and evaded the gaze of the federal government.

  Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

M

move

vsrelocation

259 1.1

An act of changing the place where you live

is about organized group transfer into new residences after forced removal not personal moves

M

migration

vsrelocation

82 3.7

Movement of people from one place to another to live there

often involves forced group moves to new homes rather than varied voluntary travel

R

resettlement

vsrelocation

16 3.9

Moving people to a new place to live after they are forced to leave their homes

is the broader general term used for moving whole groups to new areas

E

emigration

vsrelocation

13 4.5

Leaving a country to live abroad permanently

often involves organized group moves after forced displacement rather than individual country departure

D

displacement

vsrelocation

9 6.1

Moving people out of their job or home

is concerned specifically with moving people into new homes after forced departure

O

out-migration

vsrelocation

• Specialized

1 7.1

People leaving an area to live in another place

emphasizes moving groups into new homes after forced eviction rather than only leaving

O

outmigration

vsrelocation

• Specialized

1 7.2

A movement of people leaving a place to live somewhere else

focuses on moving groups into new homes after forced removal rather than general departures

I

in-migration

vsrelocation

• Specialized

1 6.3

Movement of people into a place to live there for a long time

is about organized group moves after forced departure rather than simple arrival

C

change of location

vsrelocation

1 2.4

A move of something from one place to another

is limited to moving people into new homes after forced departure not objects

R

rehousing

vsrelocation

3.9

Giving people a new home after they lose theirs

is about organized group moves into new residences rather than only giving housing support

Antonyms

S

to stay

∞ 1.0

To remain in one place and not leave

How Voluntary

relocation

12 4.0

deportation

• Formal

75 5.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology