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resettlement

resettlement noun: the transportation of a group of people to a new settlement.

Noun

resettlement (countable and uncountable, plural resettlements)

  1. The transportation of a group of people to a new settlement.
    • The domestic resettlement infrastructure is also under strain after years of low admissions under the Trump administration that resulted in agencies shuttering offices and losing staff.2021 September 13, Priscilla Alvarez, Oren Liebermann, “Inside the effort to resettle thousands of Afghans in the United States”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2022

resettlement meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

resettlement in Tamil

மீள்குடியேற்றம், மறுகுடிபுகுதல், மறுகுடியேற்றம், மறுபடி குடியமர்வு, நிலத்தீர்வை மறு விதிப்பு, மறு குணியேற்றம்

resettlement in Urdu

باز آباد کاری, باز آبادکاری, دوبارہ آباد کاری

resettlement in Kannada

ಪುನರ್ವಸತಿ ಕಲ್ಪಿಸುವುದು, ಮರುವಸತಿ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ, ಪುನರ್ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ, ಪುನರ್ವಸತಿ

Forms of resettlement

pluralresettlements

Origin of resettlement

From re- + settlement.

Questions about resettlement

What does resettlement mean?
Resettlement means the transportation of a group of people to a new settlement.
What is resettlement in Tamil?
Resettlement in Tamil is மீள்குடியேற்றம், மறுகுடிபுகுதல், மறுகுடியேற்றம். See Resettlement meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is resettlement?
Resettlement is a noun.
What is the plural of resettlement?
The plural of resettlement is resettlements.

Words near resettlement in the dictionary

  1. resetting
  2. resetting the dial
  3. resettings
  4. resettle
  5. resettled
  6. resettlement
  7. resettlements
  8. resettler
  9. resettlers
  10. resettles
  11. resettling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: resettlement (page history and authors); resettlement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); resettlement (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); resettlement (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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