move out

1. 1.

   cause to leave

   “The teacher took the children out of the classroom”

   Synonymstake outremove

   Narrowerclearcall inestrange
2. 2.

   move out of one's old house or office

   Antonymsmove in

   Broadermove

   Narrowerclear out

Questions about move out

What does move out mean?

move out means "cause to leave". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for move out?

Close synonyms include take out, remove. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of move out?

The recorded antonyms are move in.

Is move out a common word?

move out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.