Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - move on

1. When you move on somewhere, you leave the place where you have been staying or waiting and go there. Mr Brooke moved on from Paris to Belgrade... What’s wrong with his wanting to sell his land and move on? PHRASAL VERB: V P prep/adv, V P 2. If someone such as a policeman moves you on, they order you to stop standing in a particular place and to go somewhere else. Eventually the police were called to move them on. PHRASAL VERB: V n P, also V P n (not pron) 3. If you move on, you finish or stop one activity and start doing something different. She ran this shop for ten years before deciding to move on to fresh challenges... Now, can we move on and discuss the vital business of the day. PHRASAL VERB: V P to n, V P