Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of resettling, or the process or state of being resettled, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of settling again, or state of being settled again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
transportation of agroup ofpeople to a newsettlement
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
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Examples
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Watson says as the legal fight goes on, “many Bushmen are languishing in resettlement camps.”
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Volcan is proposing a shorter-term resettlement plan that would involve the construction of housing and public institutions in an area not far from the mine, he said.
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Volcan is proposing a shorter-term resettlement plan that would involve the construction of housing and public institutions in an area not far from the mine, he said.
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The resettlement, which is slated to begin this fall, is likely to elicit strong reactions from people on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
U.S. Agrees to Resettle Palestinians Displaced by Iraq War 2009
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Whether as landless peasants, unemployed, or agricultural workers or as deportees who have been dumped in the so-called resettlement areas or as victims of the criminal Bantustan system, our people in the countryside are living in a veritable Hell.
UNDECLARED WAR BY PRETORIA REGIME: BROADCAST ON RADIO FREEDOM, NOVEMBER 1986 (1) 1986
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Many are condemned to a slow and painful death in the so-called resettlement camps.
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Many are condemned to a slow and painful death in the so-called resettlement camps.
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Many are condemned to a slow and painful death in the so-called resettlement camps.
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Whether as landless peasants, unemployed or agricultural workers, or as deportees who have been dumped in the so-called resettlement areas or as victims of the criminal Bantustan system, our people in the countryside are living in a veritable hell.
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Whether as landless peasants, unemployed or agricultural workers, or as deportees who have been dumped in the so-called resettlement areas or as victims of the criminal bantustan system, our people in the countryside are living in a veritable hell.
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