resettle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to settle or begin living again in a different place

   After several years abroad, the family resettled near the coast.

2. 2
   verb

   to move people to a new place and establish homes or livelihoods for them there, voluntarily or by official action

   The program helps resettle refugees in communities with available housing.

3. 3
   verb

   to place, arrange, or settle something again

   The curator resettled the loose gemstones in their padded cases.

Formed from re-, 'again or in a new place,' + settle. It can be intransitive for beginning life elsewhere, transitive for relocating and establishing other people, or more literally for placing something securely again.

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