move

/muːv/ verb

Definition

CHANGE PLACE [I] › If a person or an organization moves, they go to a different place to live or work: Eventually, he moved to Germany. She's moving into a new apartment. Our children have all moved away.

POSITION [I, T] › to change place or position, or to make something change place or position: We moved the chairs to another room. I can't cut your hair if you keep moving. Someone was moving around upstairs.

move ahead/along/forward, etc › to make progress with something that you have planned to do: The department is moving ahead with changes to its teaching programme.

ACTION [I] › to take action: [+ to do sth] The company moved swiftly to find new products.

TIME [T] › to change the time or order of something: We need to move the meeting back a few days.

FEELING [T] › to make someone have strong feelings of sadness or sympathy: [often passive] I was deeply moved by his speech. Many people were moved to tears (= were so sad they cried). → Compare unmoved

move house UK › to leave your home in order to live in a new one

(Definition of move verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)