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Difference between Move away and Move off

move away

1. go away; depart:

  • Eventually the police and the crowd reached an understanding and the crowd moved away.

2. leave a place where one has lived:

  • The house was let to a retired couple for a while, but they moved away up to Inverness.

move off

1. (of a vehicle) start moving:

  • The bus moved off before the passengers had got on board.

2. = move away 1:

  • As the crowd moved off, some of its members looted the windows of West End shops.

3. (of goods) be sold off:

  • A second or third edition of the book moves off languidly enough.