relocated

verb

past tense of relocate
as in removed
to change the place or position of those volumes have been relocated to the second floor of the library

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Recent Examples of relocated The company relocated its office to a new location in San Leandro back in March 2020, with the express goal of retaining 100% of its workers in the process. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 Somewhere down the line, Sheridan relocated and retitled the show. — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026 Andries’ articles and reviews helped elevate Steppenwolf’s profile considerably in the years before the theater company relocated to Chicago in 1980 and eventually became world-renowned, Delacoma said. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 In a message posted on social media Thursday morning, Police Chief James Beere said dispatchers have been relocated to dispatch centers at the Oakland Fire Department and Alameda County Sheriff's Office. — Tim Fang, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 Kandinsky became a German citizen in 1928 but relocated to France when the Nazi government closed the Bauhaus in 1933, becoming a French citizen in 1939. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 The Thin White Duke looks back Bowie moved to LA in April 1975, pursuing an acting career while continuing to record, then relocated to Berlin in 1976. — Eleni N. Gage, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026 After being Claudia’s full-time caretaker for years until her death in 2024 at age 96, Young relocated back to Santa Barbara and cultivated his social media audience by sharing insights into the music business. — Kyle Eustice, VIBE.com, 21 Oct. 2026 The building remains a downtown landmark after the Federal Reserve relocated to a different building near Crown Center in 2008. — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for relocated
  1. removed
  2. moved
  3. transferred
  4. shifted
Verb
  • And immigration courts, which ultimately decide whether someone can be removed from the country, face more significant case backlogs.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Acton has said that her stepfather repeatedly raped her as a pre-teenage girl and that her family lived in a tent at the time she was removed from their care.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of removed
Verb
  • Deloitte found only 25% of organizations have moved 40% or more of their AI pilots into production.
    — Chris Koehler, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Trees fell onto homes and utility poles were knocked down by a possible tornado in a central Arizona community during a series of violent storms that moved through the state overnight into Thursday.
    — Wufei Yu, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of moved
Verb
  • General admission floor tickets could not be transferred and could be resold only at face value, a rule meant to curb scalping.
    — James LaForge, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Any unspent money would remain in the fund for the benefit of families with newborns and could not be transferred to other city purposes.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of transferred
Verb
  • Election forecaster Cook Political Report shifted Ohio’s gubernatorial race toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton on Friday after a week of backlash over an ad Republican Vivek Ramaswamy ran featuring her estranged mother.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The risk shifted to Utah's southeast, where streams ran fast and high.
    — MEAD GRUVER, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of shifted

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“Relocated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relocated. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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