Resettlement

noun

noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The transportation of a group of people to a new settlement. countable, uncountable

    "The domestic resettlement infrastructure is also under strain after years of low admissions under the Trump administration that resulted in agencies shuttering offices and losing staff."

  2. 2
    the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) wordnet

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relocation

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"A library run by a volunteer group in New Delhi’s largest slum resettlement colony is helping underprivileged teenagers become writers."

Etymology

From re- + settlement.

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