TOEIC Link Corporate Relocation and Office Move Vocabulary: The Cluster for Part 3, Part 4, and Part 7

In TOEIC Link's business world, a company is always moving to a bigger office. A manager tells a colleague that the department will relocate to the new building on the first of next month and that boxes should be packed by Friday (Part 3). A recorded announcement tells staff that the elevators will be reserved for movers all weekend and that the office will reopen Monday (Part 4). A relocation memo sits beside a moving schedule that lists which floor moves on which day (Part 7 double passage). Because an office move follows a fixed arc — announce, prepare, move, settle in — ETS can link two documents with exactly one defensible answer. Miss a term like relocate, premises, or reopen and you can lose a linked pair at once.

This article organizes the cluster by the announce-to-settle-in timeline — the announcement, the preparation, the move day, and the reopening — because that sequence is precisely how ETS threads the pieces together. If your general business base is thin, build it first with the TOEIC Link vocabulary essentials guide; this cluster layers on top. A move is largely a logistics problem, so the shipping and logistics cluster shares much of its verb set — deliver, dispatch, schedule — and is the neighboring set worth pairing with this one.

Why relocation vocabulary is overweighted

Reason 1 — a move produces naturally linked documents. A relocation announcement plus a detailed moving schedule is a ready-made double passage. The date named in one and the floor-by-floor plan in the other cross-reference each other — exactly what a linked set needs to force a single conclusion.

Reason 2 — a schedule creates who-and-when questions. Because a move assigns specific groups to specific days, ETS can ask "When does the marketing team move?" or "Which floor moves first?" with one correct answer. The reader has to combine a department named in one document with a date listed in the other.

Reason 3 — the terms are fixed office conventions. Relocate, premises, and floor plan mean the same thing at every company. That rigidity makes the cluster perfectly testable — and perfectly learnable. The collocation is the unit of memory.

The cluster, organized by the relocation timeline

Stage 1 — the announcement

Verbs and collocations: relocate to, move to new premises, announce the move, expand into, lease a new office.

Nouns: relocation, new premises, headquarters, branch office, address, effective date.

Watch relocate / expand / renovate — a stem may name one while the passage means another; to relocate is to move to a new address, to expand is to add space, and to renovate is to remodel the current space without moving. Premises / facility / headquarters cluster tightly, and a Part 7 question often turns on matching the new address in the announcement to a detail in the map or memo.

Stage 2 — the preparation

Verbs and collocations: pack up, label the boxes, back up files, notify clients, update the address, coordinate with the movers.

Nouns: moving company, movers, packing materials, inventory, deadline, checklist.

Pack / label / sort describe distinct pre-move steps, and a stem naming one maps to whichever the passage requires. Update the address / notify clients / forward the mail point to the same housekeeping task, and a "what must employees do before Friday?" question maps to whichever instruction the memo gives. A missed deadline for packing is a favorite setup for a follow-up reminder.

Stage 3 — the move day

Verbs and collocations: load the truck, transport the equipment, reserve the elevator, close the office, restrict access.

Nouns: moving day, freight elevator, loading dock, equipment, workstation, closure.

Transport / deliver / install are distinct — transport carries the goods, delivery drops them off, and install sets them up — and a stem naming one maps to whichever the passage performs. Freight elevator / loading dock / service entrance often anchor a logistics detail, and a "why is the elevator unavailable?" question maps to the closure the announcement states.

Stage 4 — the reopening

Verbs and collocations: reopen, resume operations, set up the workstations, test the network, welcome staff back.

Nouns: new location, floor plan, seating chart, workstation, opening date, orientation.

Reopen / resume / reoccupy cluster on the return-to-work idea, and a stem asking when normal work restarts maps to whichever term the passage uses. Floor plan / seating chart / layout point to the same document, and a "where will the finance team sit?" question turns on reading the new plan against a name from the memo — a classic two-document match.

The paraphrase traps that decide the hardest questions

The linked questions in this cluster rarely reuse the passage's words. They rewrite them.

• The memo says "the office will be closed all weekend for the move"; the stem asks when staff "cannot access the building." Same idea, different words.
• The schedule says "the third floor moves Saturday, the fourth floor Sunday"; the question asks "When does the accounting department move?" — and the answer requires knowing accounting sits on the fourth floor, stated in a separate line.
• The announcement says "effective the first of next month"; the correct answer paraphrases it as the date operations "resume at the new premises."

Training these rewrites is exactly what a focused vocabulary tool does well. In the EnglishBlitz app, relocation items appear inside short Part 3 and Part 4 dialogues and Part 7 document pairs, so you meet relocate, premises, and floor plan in the linked context ETS tests, not as isolated flashcards. That is how the collocation, not just the word, becomes automatic.

How to study this cluster this week

1. Learn the four stages as a story, not a list. Announce → prepare → move → reopen. When you read a relocation passage, place each sentence on that timeline; the linked question almost always crosses two stages.
2. Practice the who-moves-when match. Half the linked questions pair a department from the memo with a date from the schedule. Train the cross-reference until it is fast.
3. Separate move from renovate. A stem that assumes "relocate" when the passage says "renovate" is a designed trap. Read for whether the address actually changes.
4. Borrow the logistics verbs. Transport, dispatch, deliver, install carry over from moving goods to moving offices; drilling the logistics cluster doubles your return here.

Master the announce-to-settle-in arc and the relocation cluster stops being a source of lost linked pairs and becomes a reliable source of points. Layer it on the essentials base, and keep the logistics verbs close, because a move is a delivery problem wearing an office suit.