🔄 A replacement 🚚 A move 💼 A job transfer

transplacement

8.9

Moving an employee to a different job or location within a company

noun
/trænsˈpleɪsmənt/

Formal

: reubicación

The company initiated a transplacement program to help employees find roles that better suited their skills.

Examples

After a review of his performance, the manager informed him of his transplacement to another department.
Due to restructuring, her transplacement meant moving to a different office in a nearby city.
Such gene transplacement is commonplace in yeast, where it is used to study gene function in the cell.

Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

transplant

vstransplacement

Specialized

40 4.8

The act of moving someone or a thing to a new place

applies to planned staff moves within an organization rather than moving living organisms

shifting

vstransplacement

24 3.7

Moving from one place or state to another

focuses on deliberate staff or workplace moves inside an organization rather than general shifts

relocation

vstransplacement

23 3.1

Moving to a new place to live or work

is about internal job or workplace moves within the same organization rather than general moves

reassignment

vstransplacement

18 3.9

To move a person to a different job or role

also covers moving staff to a different workplace as well as new duties

displacement

vstransplacement

9 6.1

Moving people out of their job or home

is more neutral and planned, describing organized staff moves rather than forced removal

redeployment

vstransplacement

Specialized

9 6.8

Moving staff and equipment to new jobs or places to use them better

is focused on individual staff moves inside one organization rather than broad reallocations

transferral

vstransplacement

1 6.3

The act of moving something between places or people

is specifically about moving employees within an organization rather than general moves

repositioning

vstransplacement

1 4.2

Moving something or someone to a new position

refers to planned staff position changes rather than general placement

change of location

vstransplacement

1 2.4

A move of something from one place to another

is narrower, referring to moving people within an organizational context rather than any move

Antonyms

stability

363 3.1

Being steady and not likely to change

How Disruptive

redeployment

Specialized

9 6.8

relocation

23 3.1

transplacement

Formal

8.9

reassignment

18 3.9

transfer

63 3.2

secondment

1 8.2

Surface Forms

transplacement singular

transplacements plural

Morphology

transplacement = placement (transparent) = trans + place + ment

The HR sense 'reassignment or relocation' is a straightforward application of 'trans-' (across/transfer) to 'placement'.

Etymology

Transplacement mixes trans- ('across') with placement from place ('put'), much like the word transfer. It is used for moving people across jobs or locations, which is why it means reassigning or relocating an employee.