Noun: relocation ,ree-low'key-shun
- The act of changing your residence or place of business
"Their relocation to the new city took several months";
- move
- The transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
"The government's relocation program aimed to help refugees start new lives";
- resettlement
Derived forms: relocations
Type of: change, conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation
Encyclopedia: Relocation, Relocation