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RESETTLEMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does resettlement mean?
• RESETTLEMENT (noun)
The noun RESETTLEMENT has 1 sense:
1. the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
Familiarity information: RESETTLEMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
relocation; resettlement
Hypernyms ("resettlement" is a kind of...):
conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation (the act of moving something from one location to another)
Derivation:
resettle (settle in a new place)
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