Relocatable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. An object or item that can be moved freely from one location to another is characterized by its ability to change position to fulfill various needs
2. Capable of being transferred or shifted from one site to another without restriction
3. Describes something designed for easy movement and repositioning across locations

Etymology: "Relocatable" is a plain modern formation: "relocate" with the suffix "-able" attached. "Relocate" itself was built from the prefix "re-" (again, back) and "locate," which goes back to Latin "locare," to place, from "locus," a place. The suffix comes through a long line of forms, Latin "-ābilis" and "-bilis" (capable of being), which passed into Old French as "-able" and then into Middle English, so the ending carries the sense "able to be done to." Put together, the word means something that can be placed or moved to another location. The meaning is therefore literal and unchanged from its parts: a relocatable thing is one that can be set down somewhere else. Its use is most common in technical and commercial contexts, such as relocatable software or buildings designed to be taken apart and moved, though the dictionary sense covers any object or person that can be shifted from one place to another.

Synonyms: movable, portable

Antonyms: fixed, stationary