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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=early 14th century|origins=la moveō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /rɪˈmuːv/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|removen]] or remeven,^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) [[bor|fro|removoir|t=to move, stir; leave; take away]] (French remouvoir),^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) from [[la|removēre|t=to move back or away, take away]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[m|la|re-|t=back, away]] and [[m|la|movēre|t=to move]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[ine-pro|*meue-|t=to push away]].^(Etymonline) The two Middle English forms come from the stressed and unstressed stems of the Old French verb.^(Hoad 1986) It is related to [[move]] and [[remote]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To take something away, to dismiss from office: the early 14th century in Etymonline,^(Etymonline) and probably before 1325 in Barnhart.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ “To go away, depart” and “to change one's residence” are from the 14th century.^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) The noun, the removal of a person from office, is from 1553,^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024) and a change of place from the 1580s.^(Etymonline) Distance, the space by which one thing is removed from another, as in ''at one remove'', is from 1628.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) The dish removed at a meal to make room for another is from 1771,^(OED 1989) and promotion from one class to another at school, and so the name of a form, from the 18th century.^(Hoad 1986) [[removal]] is from 1597.^(Barnhart 1988) In Scotland, to be ''removed'' was to die.^(Wright 1898)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1325 – to take away, dismiss.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 14th century – to depart; to move house.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1553 – noun, removal from office.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1597 – ''removal''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1628 – distance, a degree of separation.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 18th century – a class at school.^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To move from a place or position; to take away or off.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # To get rid of; to [[eliminate]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # To [[dismiss]] from office.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # ''(formal)'' To move to another place of residence.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A degree of separation: ''at one remove from the truth''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # ''(British)'' A form or class in some schools.^(AHD)^(COED 2004)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[remover]]

+ * [[removability]]

+ * [[removableness]]

+ * [[removably]]

+ * [[removable]]

+ * [[removal]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[move]]

+ * [[remote]]

+ * [[motion]]

+ * [[emotion]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}