Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - move in

1. When you move in somewhere, you begin to live there as your home. Her house was in perfect order when she moved in... Her husband had moved in with a younger woman... We’d been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together. ? move out PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P with n, V P together 2. If police, soldiers, or attackers move in, they go towards a place or person in order to deal with or attack them. Police moved in to disperse the crowd... Forces were moving in on the town of Knin. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P on n 3. If someone moves in on an area of activity which was previously only done by a particular group of people, they start becoming involved with it for the first time. These black models are moving in on what was previously white territory: the lucrative cosmetic contracts. PHRASAL VERB: V P on n, also V P