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rehousing

rehousing is the present participle and gerund of rehouse.

Meaning of rehouse

Verb

rehouse (third-person singular simple present rehouses, present participle rehousing, simple past and past participle rehoused)

  1. (transitive) To give a new house to; to relocate someone to a new house.
  2. (transitive) To store in a new location.
    • The existing collection of paintings will be rehoused in the new gallery.

Noun

rehousing (plural rehousings)

  1. The movement of a person or thing to a new residence or place of storage.
    • Despite the ups and downs of removals and rehousings, the collection was considerably extended under his guidance, both by purchases and donations.2001, Constantijn Petridis, Daniel P. Biebuyck, Frans M. Olbrechts, 1899-1958: in search of art in Africa, page 15

Forms of rehousing

pluralrehousings

Questions about rehousing

What does rehousing mean?
Rehousing means the movement of a person or thing to a new residence or place of storage.
What is rehousing the present participle and gerund of?
Rehousing is the present participle and gerund of rehouse.
What part of speech is rehousing?
Rehousing is a noun.
What is the plural of rehousing?
The plural of rehousing is rehousings.

Words near rehousing in the dictionary

  1. rehosting
  2. rehosts
  3. rehouse
  4. rehoused
  5. rehouses
  6. rehousing
  7. rehousings
  8. Rehovot
  9. rehra
  10. rehras
  11. Rehrig

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rehousing (page history and authors); rehouse (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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