resettle
See also: re-settle
English
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[edit]resettle (third-person singular simple present resettles, present participle resettling, simple past and past participle resettled)
- (intransitive) To settle in a different place.
- (transitive) To force someone to settle in a different place.
- 2015 December 21, Octavio Blanco, “Immigrants: These cities want you!”, in CNN[1]:
- 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.
- 2018 November 5, Mark Hetfield, “HIAS chief: If you’re not combating hate speech, you’re accepting it”, in CNN[3]:
- 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.
- 2021 September 13, Priscilla Alvarez and Oren Liebermann, “Inside the effort to resettle thousands of Afghans in the United States”, in CNN[4]:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]to settle in a different place
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to force someone to settle in a different place
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