relocate
The business is considering relocation.
The war has caused the forced relocation of tens of thousands of people.
We offer relocation assistance and on-the-job training.
Residents vowed to fight for relocation of the factory.

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relocation | Business English

relocation
noun[ S or U ]
uk /ˌriːləʊˈkeɪʃən/us
HR, WORKPLACE
the process of moving to a different place to work, or of moving employees to a different place to work:
Those in charge of planning the relocation will need to establish exactly what key tasks need to be carried out, when, and in what order these should be done.
relocation of sthRelocation of manufacturing facilities from the developed to the industrializing world has brought into play a new stream of capital flows.
Senior board members voted this week to go ahead with the proposed relocation to New Jersey.
relocation costs/expenses/allowances

Examples of relocation

relocation
Residents who had been involved in preference relocations stressed the importance of having choices for their initial and subsequent moves into, within and between care-homes.
The relocation of works would also take time, delaying the incumbent companies' ability to retaliate.
These are examples of mismanaged relocations with high mortality and questions have arisen concerning quality of care on transfer, resulting in inquiries.
The push-pull model of relocation decisions suggests that an older person exercises choice among various options.
According to this characterisation, bare survival is possible in settlements, but any meaningful developmental activity requires additional support and relocation away from them.
Thus, increasingly, economic integration and environmental harmonization are viewed as necessary complements, especially to stop the threat of plant relocation or unfair foreign competition.
The notion of permanent employment becomes a thing of the past given the ease of investment relocation.
They wanted to be involved in the relocation decisions rather than have their circumstances, or other people's views, determine their living arrangements.
Elderly people's experiences of housing renewal and forced relocation : social theories and contextual analysis in explanations of emotional experiences.
Moving day: relocation and anxiety in institutionalized elderly.
It also uses statements that announce errors and emit relocation information.
Of the care-home managers who responded to the questionnaire, 83 per cent reported that they had had experience of resident relocations.
Nevertheless, these projections of underestimated relocation substantially increase the likelihood that our estimates of the extent of new subjectivities are themselves conservative.
They focused on the time leading up to the admission, the experience of relocation and the participant's subsequent involvement in the care home.
Excellent chapters discuss the pros and cons of screening, intervention for survivors of prolonged adversity and relocation stress.
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