Crossword clues for resettlement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resettlement \Re*set"tle*ment\ (-ment), n. Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees.
The resettlement of my discomposed soul.
--Norris.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from resettle + -ment. In a South African context from 1954.
Wiktionary
n. the transportation of a group of people to a new settlement
WordNet
n. the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) [syn: transplantation, relocation]
Wikipedia
Resettlement in Newfoundland and Labrador terms was an organized approach to centralize the population into growth areas. Three attempts of resettlement were initiated by the Government between 1954 and 1975 which resulted in the abandonment of 300 communities and nearly 30,000 people moved. Government's attempt of resettlement has been viewed as one of the most controversial government programs of the post-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador.
Resettlement is the voluntary or involuntary (re-)integration of a person in a new or changed geographical and/or cultural setting or context after previously having been removed from the same or another setting. It can refer to:
- Refugee resettlement (or third country resettlement) is a voluntary UNHCR programme
- Population transfer, which is usually involuntarily and involves large groups of people
Usage examples of "resettlement".
Someone, presumably someone opposed to resettlement of primitivists, had tried something subtle to delay their mission.
The dullest could perceive that such a registration and resettlement within the Six Duchies could easily be a prelude to a wide-scale massacre.
From this time the great Hunnish Empire was at an end, and there was a general resettlement of territory among the nations which had been subject to its yoke.
While most of them show signs of settlement or resettlement within the last seven hundred years, others, such as Anuta and Tikopia have been inhabited by Polynesian-related peoples for over two thousand years.
They were shipped eastward to the slave-labor camps and the death camps, assured they were destined for resettlement and mainly believing it, with what they could carry, usually two suitcases.
She asked for a cure, but the port authorities already had her scheduled for resettlement as a displaced person.
But given the United States' precedent in using expatriated Nazis and Cubans for their covert operations, and the extremely low-key nature of the Bush/Clinton Iraqi resettlement program, one has to wonder what Hussaini's real purpose was.
The two vehicles went northwest into the New Territories on the Sha Tin-Tai Po road that curled through villages and resettlement areas and shantytowns of squatters, through the mountain pass, skirting the railway that headed north for the border, past rich market gardens heavy with the smell of dung.
They looked like pregnant midwife toads, blistered with bulky refugee pods hanging from their cargo spines, steerage for tens of thousands of passengers on the three-week, forty-light year journey to Septagon for resettlement.
He would finance Fifth Uncle to buy a used plastic molding machine to begin a plastic flower factory in return for 5 I percent, another 1,000 would pay for the construction of two dwellings in the resettlement to be rented and the last 1,000 would be for next Saturday!
He would finance Fifth Uncle to buy a used plastic molding machine to begin a plastic flower factory in return for 51 percent, another 1,000 would pay for the construction of two dwellings in the resettlement to be rented and the last 1,000 would be for next Saturday!
Armstrong had allowed him to come home to check when the radio news had again reported bad slides in this part of the resettlement area.
Terrorism was still a fact of political life, and although the problem of the displaced and the minorities had been somewhat eased by the mass resettlements and the institution of the Linear developments near every major urban area, and the incidence of assassinations had been drastically reduced, empaths were still employed to "mind" those officials who might be targets for the fanatics who still occasionally emerged.
All of the inevitable relocations and resettlements waited on that decision.
Similar resettlements occurred in many Saxon communities after they had been depopulated by the war.