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relocation|rɛləʊˈkeɪʃən, riː-|
[In sense 1, f. late L. relocāre to relet; cf. F. relocation (1585). In sense 2, f. re- 5 a + location (cf. prec.).]
1. Sc. Law. tacit relocation, the implied renewal of a lease when the landlord allows a tenant to continue without a fresh agreement, after the original lease has expired.
1746–7Act 20 Geo. II, c. 50 §21 Any lease or tack..made in writing, or by verbal agreement, tacit relocation, or other⁓wise. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 251 In tacks of teinds, as of lands, there is place for tacit relocation. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 582 When the term of the lease is expired it is in the power of the landlord and tenant to continue the lease from year to year by tacit relocation. 1886Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 50 §3 Any lease, tack, or set, whether constituted by writing or verbally, or by tacit relocation.
2. The action of locating afresh; a new allocation.
1837A. Lincoln Let. 5 Aug. in McClure's (1896) Mar. 316/1, I also tacked a provision on to a fellow's bill, to authorize the relocation of a road. 1873Trans. Illinois Dept. Agric. X. 371 The court shall appoint three viewers to examine the necessary re-location. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 221 Some relocations have been made under the act of 1872 and its amendments. Ibid., All these relocations and new discoveries. 1901S. E. White Claim Jumpers 232 Under the terms of a relocation, we can use the old stakes and ‘discovery’. 1948Sierra Club Bull. Dec. 5/1 A general relocation of the road was thereupon planned, including a higher crossing of Yosemite Creek. 1963C. R. Cowell et al. Inlays, Crowns, & Bridges viii. 89 Re-location of the copper ring may be inaccurate in such an elastic material. 1967Boston Sunday Globe 23 Apr. 9/5 A private company has sponsored refugee relocation. 1973M. Mann (title) Workers on the move: the sociology of relocation. 1979Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 24 May 1/2 He recognized that relocation would be difficult for the Navajos. 1981J. Sutherland Bestsellers i. 29 A move towards bestsellerism..would seem to presage a general relocation of the bestseller.
3. attrib., as relocation allowance, relocation assistance, relocation cost, relocation director, relocation expense, relocation grant; relocation centre U.S., an internment camp to which persons of Japanese birth or origin were committed during the war of 1939–45.
1958Observer 12 Jan. 18/3 (Advt.), Liberal *relocation allowances will be given successful candidates. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. b6/3 (Advt.), Generous relocation allowance.
Ibid. 17 Feb. b6 (Advt.), Excellent advancement potential and benefits program. *Relocation assistance will be offered. 1976Star (Sheffield) 20 Nov. (Advt.), Relocation assistance will be provided.
1943S. Menefee Assignment: U.S.A. 68 Hearst reporters got anti-Japanese statements from Mayor Fletcher Bowron and other prominent figures in Los Angeles and played up the Dies Committee's ‘exposures’ of the *relocation centers. 1967Economist 22 Apr. 354/2 In the days just after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, many Americans vented their panic..on the Nisei... The brunt fell most heavily on the large communities on the West Coast... These were evacuated en masse to inland ‘relocation centres’.
1970Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 4th Ser. XIX. ii. 237 A sparsely populated Coast where *relocation costs are nominal.
1963Freedomways Summer 425 A *relocation director,..whose job is to help relocate families displaced from areas where new housing is being constructed.
1961Times 27 Jan. 3/3 (Advt.), *Relocation expenses guaranteed for selected Engineers. 1977Navy News July 35 (Advt.), Relocation expenses will be considered where appropriate.
1977Times Educ. Suppl. 21 Oct. 52/3 (Advt.), *Relocation grants available in approved cases. |