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move on

Phrasal Verb with move
 
 
/muːv/ verb

Definition

NEW PLACE to leave the place where you are staying and go somewhere else: After three days in Madrid we thought we'd move on.
NEW ACTIVITY to start doing a new activity: I'd done the same job for ten years and felt it was time to move on.
NEW SUBJECT to change from one subject to another when you are talking or writing: Let's move on to the next topic.
(Definition of move on from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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