Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To provide with new, usually improved housing.
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- v. To give a new house to; to relocate someone to a new house.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. put up in a new or different housing
Etymologies
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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 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
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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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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.
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To help, Islamic Relief asked for 20 acres to build a site called Leda, in order to rehouse the 10,000 refugees.
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Olympics chiefs are spending nearly £2million to requisition a travellers' camp and rehouse its inhabitants.
Life in Gordon's "Cool Britannia" - Its getting worse by the day.
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After many days of sighing loudly at the number of Civil War payment vouchers I was going to have to rehouse, I happily discovered that my pace rapidly improved with a little Billy Bragg playing in the background.
Secrets to Painless Rehousing « Fondly, Pennsylvania: Notes from Archives and Conservation
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I should probably not reveal these secrets, but, then again, it increased my productivity and made me feel better about all of these gritty receipts that I have to rehouse.
Secrets to Painless Rehousing « Fondly, Pennsylvania: Notes from Archives and Conservation
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Even though Lebanon has been trying to raise funds to improve conditions for Palestinians across the country, it may not even have enough money to rehouse some 30,000 refugees left homeless after the 2007 battle in Nahr al-Bared.
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