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move on

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move someone or something on
to cause someone or something to move onward or out of the way. Please move those people on. They are in the way. The officers worked hard to move the crowd on.
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move on

to continue moving; to travel on; to move along and not stop or tarry. Move on! Don't stop here! Please move on!
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move on (to something)

to change to a different subject or activity. Now, I will move on to a new question. That is enough discussion on that point. Let's move on.
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move on someone

to attempt to pick up someone; to attempt to seduce someone. Don't try to move on my date, old chum. Harry is trying to move on Tiffany. They deserve each another.
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move on something

to do something about something. I will move on this matter only when I get some time. I have been instructed to move on this and give it the highest priority.
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move on
to do something different He wrote popular songs in the 1920s but moved on to become a producer of musicals in the 1940s. When someone dies, you need to go through certain rituals so you can finally move on.
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With this farewell hint and pointing generally to the setting sun as a likely place to move on to, the constable bids his auditors good afternoon and makes the echoes of Cook's Court perform slow music for him as he walks away on the shady side, carrying his iron-bound hat in his hand for a little ventilation.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
Fortunately its habit, was to remain for several years in the same place, and not to move on till the whole neighbourhood was eaten up.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
"What," I thought, "if I meet him and don't move on one side?
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
 
 
 
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