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Definition of "move on" [move on]

  • To leave somewhere for another place. (verb)
  • To start dealing with something else. (verb)

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Use "move on" in a sentence
  • "On Wednesday the couple move on to meet victims of recent flooding in the Slave Lake area and rescue and emergency services there, but for most of the coming two days they are spending private time out of the public and media spotlight before re-emerging to attend tha annual Calgary rodeo and stampede on Friday and heading south to Los Angeles to mingle in the celebrity culture of Hollywood over the weekend."
  • "It was time to move on to the next lead, to find Harry Shaughnessy, or the Cambodian fisherman from the river."
  • "Still, we were able to move on once the Tower Board had removed the cloud from over the White House and agreed, as did the congressional investigating committees, with what I had been saying from the beginning: that I had had no knowledge of any diversion of monies to the Contras."