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; to relocate someone to a new house.

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  • verb put up in a new or different housing

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Examples

  • 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;

    The Rev. Chuck Currie: 2010

  • 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;

    President Barack Obama 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Filipino government claims it would cost about a third of the national budget to rehouse Manila's slum dwellers.

    Want to know what to do about slum dwellers? Try listening to them 2011

  • 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

  • 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.

    Homeless Numbers Dip, But More Families Suffer 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • They are advertising government plans to rehouse the 1.3 million people who live in the Khayelitsha township.

    World Cup 2010: The coming out party that will make a mint for Fifa 2010

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