Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To settle again; specifically, to install again, as a minister in a parish.
- To become settled again; specifically, to be installed a second time or anew in a parish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To settle again.
- intransitive verb To settle again, or a second time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive to
settle in a different place - verb transitive to force someone to settle in a different place
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb settle in a new place
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Examples
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But the Lipovans have no desire to "resettle" in Russia.
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American president-elect Barack Obama has announced his intention to close the camp and wants help to "resettle" 60 prisoners.
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Why 'resettle' new farmers only to uproot them on another scheme?
British Blogs 2009
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It's a hard life: inmates will 'resettle' in Bermuda Photo: Getty
Telegraph Blogs 2009
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As part of new President Barack Obama's plan to close the detention base in Cuba, America wants help to "resettle" 60 prisoners.
UP Pompeii 2009
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Which Arab country or countries would give up land in order to resettle more than 4 million Palestinians?
Huckabee of Judea Glenn Kessler 2011
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The Palestinians and the so-called Saudi Peace Plan demand that all individuals currently living in refugee camps be allowed to resettle in Israel (the Saudi Peace Plan calls for a just solution to the Palestinian refugee issue which is Arab speak for resettlement of them in what is now Israel).
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As I have stated over and over again, this is Arab speak for resettle the refugees in Israel.
Matthew Yglesias » American Public Prepared to Support Israel in Endless War With Arabs 2010
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The book's charges include that Sir Bob Geldhof's 1984 Band Aid helped fund and provide cover for the Ethiopian government's effort to forcibly resettle hundreds of thousands of dissident northern peasants on southern plantations.
Peter Christian Hall: 'The Crisis Caravan': Charity's Road to Hell? Peter Christian Hall 2010
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The U.S. immigration program gives Cuban doctors yet another reason to serve abroad: a way to resettle in the U.S.
New Prize in Cold War: Cuban Doctors Joel Millman 2011
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