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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.
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