resettle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 8
Definition of resettle
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (intransitive)To settle in a different place.
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verb
- (intransitive)To settle in a different place.
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(transitive)To force someone to settle in a different place.
“And for entrepreneurial immigrants, the mayor's office partners with local organizations to offer business loans of between $5,000 and $50,000, said Ruben Chandrasekar, executive director for the International Rescue Committee, a nonprofit that resettles about 1,100 refugees and asylum seekers in Baltimore each year.”
“And so far just two member states, Malta and Finland, are on track to meet their resettling obligations.”
“Together with our partner in Pittsburgh, Jewish Family and Community Services, and others across the country, we’ve directly resettled more than 450,000 refugees in the US since 1980 when the USRAP was established, according to HIAS annual reports.”
“After the biggest military evacuation in history, the Biden administration will now resettle more than 60,000 Afghan refugees inside the US over the next several weeks.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From re- + settle.
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