RESETTLEMENT Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

resettlement

noun

as in relocation

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Recent Examples of resettlement More than a hundred thousand people had been conditionally approved for resettlement, and many had been waiting for years. — Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026 Nurul Amin then began the rigorous, yearslong process of resettlement. — Dan Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2026 Now disarmed, the dissidents will enter a temporary resettlement zone where the government intends to facilitate their gradual reintegration into civilian life. — ABC News, 18 June 2026 Local authorities are providing relief, medical care and resettlement assistance to affected residents, the news report said. — Grant Peck, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026 Thiswas a good first step to identifying areas needing improvement and ensuring accountability onrefugee resettlement and immigration in Idaho. — Rose Evans may 6, Idaho Statesman, 6 May 2026 Dajani has also worked on boards for a refugee resettlement organization and the Association of Arab American studies and served on scholarship committees at the Mosque of Orland Park. — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026 In 2015, Dong and his family fled to Thailand, where the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recognized them as refugees and they were approved for resettlement in Canada. — Stella Kim, NBC news, 27 May 2026 Lê Shackelford said Columbus Park has historical ties to Vietnamese refugee resettlement after the war and already includes Asian businesses such as Vietnam Café, Pho Lan, Tian Tea House and Café Cà Phê. — Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026

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Noun

Rodríguez said emergency economic measures will include relief funds for victims and temporary waivers on documentation and property registration fees to facilitate housing relocation.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
In reality, only those padded with cash who can push through the lengthy relocation process will have a shot at living in New Zealand.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 July 2026

Definition of relocation

Noun

For years, researchers have attempted to block this migration using physical barriers, but these approaches often compromise battery performance.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026
The pope’s visit comes just two weeks after the European Union began implementing a new set of rules governing how each of its 27 member states will deal with irregular migration and asylum seekers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026

Definition of migration

Noun

Oil-rich Venezuela, a country of 28 million that was long among the wealthiest nations in Latin America, has suffered a decade of economic decline and mass emigration.

— Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
That turn is notable in a country that has prided itself on keeping the far right at the margins, and whose own history of colonization and emigration has generally made such politics a hard sell.

— Donathan L. Brown, The Conversation, 24 June 2026

Definition of emigration

Noun

Officials caution that not everyone reported missing is necessarily trapped beneath the rubble because communications failures, mass displacement and transportation disruptions have complicated efforts to reunite families.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
But any displacement by immigrants is limited and often dwarfed, as Card's research found, by job increases from new or expanding businesses that immigrants generate.

— Robert Hormats, Time, 4 July 2026

Definition of displacement

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But the court also said the people facing deportation must pursue their cases individually where they are being held, under what are called habeas petitions, rather than collectively, under what is called a class action.

— Bart Jansen, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Nearly half of all respondents in deportation proceedings filed in California courts do not have legal representation, according to TRAC data.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of deportation

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Adidas Virginia Watermoc is a slip-on shoe with all the appearances of grip and water dispersion.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
When this happens, the oven continues to generate microwaves that rapidly change frequency as the power dies off over a fraction of a second, mimicking dispersion.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 26 June 2026

Definition of dispersion

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