Present participle of relocate; moving to a new place or position, especially moving one's home or business.
From Latin prefix 're-' (again) + 'locate' from Latin 'locare' (to place), from 'locus' (place). The word emerged in English in the 1830s during westward expansion.
Corporate relocations have shaped American demographics more than natural migration - when companies move headquarters, they often trigger chain migrations of entire professional communities, essentially moving cities worth of people.
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