move off

English

Verb

move off (third-person singular simple present moves off, present participle moving off, simple past and past participle moved off)

(of a vehicle) To start moving.
- 1950 April, Two Belfast Correspondents, “The Last Days of the Belfast and County Down Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 267:
  Driver Cerr spent so long complaining to us about the quality of the coal that we had barely time to get into coach No. 51, the oldest type of third-class six-wheeler, as we moved off.
- 1964 May, “Automation in the cab—latest SNCF developments”, in Modern Railways, page 336:
  When the large handwheel seen in the illustration of a 68000 class cab is moved from "stop" to "run", the traction circuit contactors are closed and the locomotive moves off with the diesel engine running at idling speed.

References

“move off”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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