relocation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English location

English relocation

From re- + location.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

relocation (countable and uncountable, plural relocations)

1. The act of moving from one place to another.

   Synonyms: move, removal

   • 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69:

     Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves […] .

   • 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 28:

     The work to deliver an 18tph service involves relocation of four signals and associated equipment to improve signal spacing.

   • 2020 June 17, “Network News: Byford appointed to top London transport post”, in Rail, page 16:

     He was also entitled to a relocation payment but has chosen not to take it.

   • 2025 February 19, Jordan Valinsky, “KFC is leaving Kentucky”, in CNN Business‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 March 2025:

     The relocation is part of Yum’s broader plans to have just two US headquarters for its restaurants, which also includes Irvine, California-based Taco Bell and Habit Burger.

2. Renewal of a lease.
3. (computing) The assigning of addresses to variables either at linkage editing, or at runtime.
   • 2000, John R. Levine, Linkers and Loaders, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 157:

     A peculiarity of ECOFF relocation entries is that even on 32-bit machines, they're 10 bytes long, which means that on machines that require aligned data, the linker can't just load the entire relocation table into a memory array […]

Derived terms

• photorelocation
• relocational

Translations

moving to another place

• Belarusian: перасяле́нне n (pjerasjaljénnje), перае́зд m (pjerajézd)
• Bulgarian: преме́стване (bg) n (preméstvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 搬遷 / 搬迁 (zh) (bānqiān), 移動 / 移动 (zh) (yídòng)

• Czech: přemístění n, stěhování (cs) n
• Dutch: verhuizing (nl) f
• Esperanto: translokigo
• Finnish: muutto (fi)
• French: déménagement (fr) m, délocalisation (fr) f
• German: Umzug (de) m, Übersiedlung (de) f, Umsiedlung (de) f
• Hungarian: lakhelyváltoztatás (hu)
• Indonesian: relokasi (id)
• Italian: tramutamento m
• Japanese: 移転 (ja) (いてん, iten), 移動 (ja) (いどう, idō), 引っ越し (ja) (ひっこし, hikkoshi)
• Korean: 이사(移徙) (ko) (isa), 이동(移動) (ko) (idong)
• Macedonian: преместување n (premestuvanje)
• Malay: penempatan semula
• Piedmontese: tramud m
• Polish: przemieszczenie (pl) n, przeprowadzka (pl) f, relokacja (pl) f
• Russian: переселе́ние (ru) n (pereselénije), перемеще́ние (ru) n (peremeščénije), релока́ция (ru) f (relokácija), перее́зд (ru) m (perejézd)
• Slovak: premiestnenie n, presťahovanie n, presídlenie n
• Slovene: premestitev f
• Spanish: mudanza (es) f, traslado (es) m, reubicación f, translado m (possibly nonstandard), mudamiento m (disused)
• Ukrainian: пересе́лення n (peresélennja), пере́їзд m (peréjizd)

See also

• resettlement

Anagrams

• co-relation, corelation, iconolater

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ location.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Homophone: relocations

Noun

relocation f (plural relocations)

1. relocation (all senses)

Further reading

• “relocation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012