From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmove in phrasal verb1 DHLEAVE YOUR HOME/COUNTRY (also move into something) to start living in a new home OPP move out When are you moving in? Mom and Dad had always planned to move into a smaller house when we grew up.2 WITHto start living with someone in the same home with Steve’s going to move in with her.3 CONTROLto start being involved in and controlling a situation that someone else controlled previously The big multinationals moved in and started pushing up prices. on Investors moved in on a group of car enthusiasts and took over the market.4 ATTACKCONTROLto go towards a place or group of people, in order to attack them or take control of them on Police moved in on the demonstrators in the square. → move→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
move with• She wants a roommate, and asked me to move in with her.• She wanted me to dispose of my apartment, sell our furniture, move in with her.• If she had slept with him, he had meant, and agreed to move in with him as he had wanted.• Her relationship with her boyfriend had lasted six years, but she was unsure whether to move in with him.• They made no formal arrangements, but he wanted her to move in with him.• Thus sIte turned about his moving in with Margotte until it became her idea.• Mum had cried once, just once in front of Henry, when Dad had walked out and moved in with Sheila Howarth.• Oh, when Giustino died, his wife Ann and her two kids moved in with us, too.• Do I move in with you?move on• Immigration agents moved in on a nursing home operator who hired illegal aliens.• Investors moved in on a tight-knit group of car enthusiasts and took over the market.• As I saw the circle moving in on Alfred, I realised that that voice had been his.• She'd moved in on and in with Dionne, spitting scorn at her friends, slurring drunk at parties.• Walls were moving in on me.• Once the enemy camp was roused, thousands would move in on the castle.• But now the threat is moving in on the elite workers.• But now new technology is moving in on the traditional auctions.• Border Patrol agents and Roseau police moved in on them.move on• As I saw the circle moving in on Alfred, I realised that that voice had been his.• She'd moved in on and in with Dionne, spitting scorn at her friends, slurring drunk at parties.• Walls were moving in on me.• Once the enemy camp was roused, thousands would move in on the castle.• But now the threat is moving in on the elite workers.• But now new technology is moving in on the traditional auctions.• Border Patrol agents and Roseau police moved in on them. 