move back

present singular third person moves back · participle present moving back · participle past moved back · past moved back

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see move, back.

   They've moved the estimate of its date of origin back a hundred years.

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   If you are at a zoo, and a monkey climbs up high in the bars and sticks his thing through the bars, you should move away from the monkey cage. Move in an orderly fashion- don't push, don't rush, don't make it like a Who concert in Ohio. Just move back nice and slow and easy, because that monkey may be having some problems, he may have some hostility towards you. So please- this is just a public service announcement, that's what this is. Just to make sure it's very, very clear. And this PSA is brought to you by: Monkey Tuesday!

   2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, 27:27 from the start, in Penn Radio

2. UStransitiveTo reschedule (something) to a later date or time.

   The report still hasn't been completed, so the meeting will have to be moved back again.

   Synonyms: postpone · Antonyms: move forward, move up