Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - move along

1. If someone, especially a police officer, tells you to move along, or if they move you along, they tell you to stop standing in a particular place and to go somewhere else. Curious pedestrians were ordered to move along... Our officers are moving them along and not allowing them to gather in large groups. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V n P, also V P n (not pron) 2. If a process moves along or if something moves it along, it progresses. Research tends to move along at a slow but orderly pace... Delay is part of the normal process, but I hope we can move things along. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V n P