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re-settle

re-settle is the alternative form of resettle.

Meaning of resettle

Verb

resettle (third-person singular simple present resettles, present participle resettling, simple past and past participle resettled)

  1. (intransitive) To settle in a different place.
  2. (transitive) To force someone to settle in a different place.
    • 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...2015 December 21, Octavio Blanco, “Immigrants: These cities want you!”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2025

Forms of re-settle

third-person singular presentre-settles
present participlere-settling
past participlere-settled
pastre-settled

Questions about re-settle

What is re-settle the alternative form of?
Re-settle is the alternative form of resettle.

Words near re-settle in the dictionary

  1. re-sentencing
  2. re-serve
  3. re-served
  4. re-serves
  5. re-serving
  6. re-settle
  7. re-settled
  8. re-settles
  9. re-settling
  10. re-sew
  11. re-sewed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-settle (page history and authors); resettle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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