resettle
verb
re·set·tle
(ˌ)rē-ˈse-tᵊl 
resettled; resettling
1
transitive
: to settle (someone or something) again or anew
especially
: to move (people) to a new place to live
efforts to resettle refugees
2
intransitive
: to become settled again or anew (as after disturbance or upheaval)
The family resettled in the United States.
resettlement
noun
plural resettlements
the resettlement of refugees
a resettlement program
Examples of resettle in a Sentence
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After resettling in New York, Nyah Mway had big plans, his family said.
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Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 3 July 2024
British Columbia’s Indigenous peoples saw centuries of dispossession as Europeans resettled them onto reserve lands mostly outside present-day Vancouver.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
This mobility includes bribing one’s way into China and linking up with trade networks that connect even to the more than 20,000 North Koreans who have resettled in the South.
—John Delury, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013
But well before that, refugees were resettled in refugee camps, many of which were across the border in Thailand, according to the Karen Organization of Minnesota.
—Edward Harris, USA TODAY, 30 June 2024
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Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 3 July 2024
British Columbia’s Indigenous peoples saw centuries of dispossession as Europeans resettled them onto reserve lands mostly outside present-day Vancouver.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
This mobility includes bribing one’s way into China and linking up with trade networks that connect even to the more than 20,000 North Koreans who have resettled in the South.
—John Delury, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013
But well before that, refugees were resettled in refugee camps, many of which were across the border in Thailand, according to the Karen Organization of Minnesota.
—Edward Harris, USA TODAY, 30 June 2024
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“Resettle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resettle. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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