Meanings
plural resettlements
- countableuncountableThe 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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Englishsettlement
- Englishresettlement
From re- + settlement.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch hervestiging
- hervestigingthe transportation of a group of people to a new settlement
Finnish uudelleenasutus, väestönsiirto
- uudelleenasutusthe transportation of a group of people to a new settlement
- väestönsiirtothe transportation of a group of people to a new settlement
German Umsiedlung
- Umsiedlungthe transportation of a group of people to a new settlement
Russian переселе́ние
- переселе́ние (pereselénije)the transportation of a group of people to a new settlement
Cite this entry
resettlement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resettlement
“resettlement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resettlement. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “resettlement,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resettlement.
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