Re‐move″, n. 1. The act of removing; a removal.
This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship. Milton.
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. Goldsmith.
2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; — in the United States usually called a move.
It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. J. H. Newman.
3. The state of being removed. Locke.
4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.
6. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. Swift.