re-location
re-location — noun
1. the act of moving people, a business, or an activity to a different area and set
the act of moving people, a business, or an activity to a different area and setting things up there.
Hiro's employer covered the cost of his re-location to the Osaka office.
re-location to [place] for a job
The factory's re-location to Vietnam created hundreds of new jobs last year.
re-location to [country] for a business
After the flood, the Reyes family began their slow re-location to higher ground.
Renata accepted the promotion despite the difficult re-location it required across the country.
The library's re-location to the new building took the whole summer to finish.
- move
everyday, less formal word for the same action
- transfer
usually moving an employee or department within one organisation
- resettlement
emphasises moving people to live somewhere new, often after a crisis
文法句型
re-location to [place]
re-location of [people / business]
用法筆記
Subject is usually a person, an organisation, or an activity being moved; the new place follows 'to' and the thing moved follows 'of'. Commonly paired with work and business contexts (job, office, factory, headquarters).
常見錯誤
2. in Scots law, the automatic continuation of a lease for a further period when ne
in Scots law, the automatic continuation of a lease for a further period when neither side ends it.
Under Scots law, tacit re-location renewed the farm lease for another full year.
tacit re-location: automatic lease renewal
The tenant stayed on, so re-location extended the shop lease without a new contract.
re-location extends a lease when the tenant stays
Eitan learned that tacit re-location would continue his office lease unless he gave notice.
Because no one objected, re-location kept the flat lease running for a further term.
- renewal
general term for extending an agreement; re-location is the specific by-law version
- continuation
plain word for a lease carrying on; re-location is its formal Scots-law name
- termination
ending the lease, the opposite of letting it continue
文法句型
tacit re-location
re-location of a lease
用法筆記
Restricted to Scots property law; everyday English never carries this meaning. Distinguish from sense 1 (MOVE TO NEW PLACE), which is the only reading used in general speech. Almost always preceded by 'tacit'.