Relocator

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A professional or company that facilitates the movement of goods or individuals from one site to another
2. An entity that specializes in assisting with the transfer and relocation of personal or commercial assets from one location to a new destination
3. Someone or a business that organizes the transfer of belongings or individuals from one place to another

Etymology: "Relocator" is a plain formation: the verb "relocate," meaning to move something or someone to a new place, with the agent suffix "-or" attached, so the word names a person or business that does the moving. The "re-" prefix in "relocate" carries its usual sense of again or back, though here it is attached to "locate," which itself comes from Latin "locare," to place. In this case, the word has a clear and transparent history, built from parts English already had. The sense "company that moves households" is the one most people will meet in practice, and it follows naturally from that agent-noun pattern. Like many English nouns ending in "-or," it could in principle name any mover, but the specific trade meaning is what has stuck.

Synonyms: mover, transporter