relocation

Language: en

🇬🇧 /rɪləʊˈkeɪʃən/ 🇺🇸 /ˌriːˈloʊˈkeɪʃən/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    The act or process of moving to a new place and establishing one's home or business there.; The act of moving something from one place to another; the transfer of an object or entity to a different location.; In computing, the process of adjusting addresses in a program when it is loaded into a different memory location.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable / uncountable Plural: relocations

Collocations

relocation packagerelocation expensesrelocation assistanceforced relocationrelocation servicesrelocation costs

Derivatives

relocaterelocatablerelocator

Synonyms

movetransferresettlementdisplacementmigrationremoval

Commonly confused

dislocation
EN: 'Dislocation' implies a forced or disruptive displacement, often with negative connotations; 'relocation' is more neutral and often implies a planned or organized move.
migration
EN: 'Migration' typically refers to large-scale movement of populations or animals; 'relocation' usually refers to an individual, family, or organization moving to a new place.

Spelling tips

EN: No common spelling issues. Note the single 'l' in 'relocation' (from 'relocate'), unlike 'relocation' being sometimes misspelled as 'relocasion' by non-native speakers.

💬 Examples

  1. The company offered a generous relocation package to employees moving to the new headquarters.

  2. The relocation of the server farm to a cooler climate reduced cooling costs significantly.

  3. The linker performs relocation to resolve symbolic references to actual memory addresses.