0 present participle of resettle
1 to (be helped or forced to) move to another place to live:
His family originally came from Ireland, but resettled in the US in the 19th century.
The US government forcibly resettled the Native Americans in reservations.
It stipulated that 150,000 hectares should be acquired with a view to resettling 14,000 people by the year 2000.
The elasticity of substitution is 0.6 which suggests significant costs of resettling.
Again an ambitious target of resettling 91,000 families in five years was set, and a complex institutional framework (involving linking eight ministries) was elaborated.
But what about schemes for resettling our own unemployed, our kith and kin, in industrial life again?
My eldest daughter works in a large and excellent international organisation in which she has extraordinary responsibilities for resettling refugees in a war torn country.
In resettling the squatters we must not earn their enmity.
They have denied any deportations to the south of the country, but have admitted to some localised resettling on security grounds.
That does not help in resettling and helping those who are being discharged from hospital.
