Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To provide with new, usually improved housing.
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- verb transitive To give a new
house to; torelocate someone to a new house.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put up in a new or different housing
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Examples
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The Act also provides for $2 billion in new Neighborhood Stabilization Funds to help maintain ailing neighborhoods and $1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people in their homes or rapidly rehouse them;
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The Act also provides for $2 billion in new Neighborhood Stabilization Funds to help maintain ailing neighborhoods and $1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people in their homes or rapidly rehouse them;
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The Act also provides for $2 billion in new Neighborhood Stabilization Funds to help maintain ailing neighborhoods and $1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people in their homes or rapidly rehouse them;
Poverty 2010
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The Act also provides for $2 billion in new Neighborhood Stabilization Funds to help maintain ailing neighborhoods and $1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people in their homes or rapidly rehouse them;
Ask The President To Address Poverty During The State Of The Union 2010
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The Filipino government claims it would cost about a third of the national budget to rehouse Manila's slum dwellers.
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The Act also provides for $2 billion in new Neighborhood Stabilization Funds to help maintain ailing neighborhoods and $1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people in their homes or rapidly rehouse them;
Ask The President To Address Poverty During The State Of The Union 2010
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But HUD Assistant Secretary Mercedes Marquez says something else wasn't reflected, and that's the impact of $1.5 billion Congress approved last year to help prevent families from becoming homeless and to quickly rehouse those who do.
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Sérgio Cabral promised in 2007 to rehouse 15,000 people living in risky areas, but has managed to relocate only about 750 thus far.
Death Toll in Brazil Mudslides Worsens John Kolodziejski 2010
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Sérgio Cabral promised in 2007 to rehouse 15,000 people living in risky areas, but has managed to relocate only about 750 thus far.
Death Toll in Brazil Mudslides Worsens John Kolodziejski 2010
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They are advertising government plans to rehouse the 1.3 million people who live in the Khayelitsha township.
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