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Definition: Resettle |
ResettleVerb1. Settle in a new place; "The immigrants had to resettle". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Wife and daughter of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client who will resettle at Transylvania Project. Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Jordan | The UNHCR must resettle refugees in other countries. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The Government has sought to resettle the displaced where possible and has arranged for a number of those from Jaffna to return to their homes. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Citizens must have permission from local authorities in order to resettle in a new city and the Government rarely grants permission to those who wish to move to Tashkent. (references) | |
Economic History | Zimbabwe | His priorities were to integrate the various armed forces, reestablish social services and education in rural areas, and resettle the estimated one million refugees and displaced persons. (references) |
Human Rights | Indonesia | It also was used to resettle local populations within East Timor and Papua. (references) |
Ghana | The district assembly agreed to help resettle those whose houses were burnt. (references) | |
Minorities | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Hard-line Bosnian Croats continued to discourage some Croat returns to central Bosnia and actively have recruited displaced Croats to resettle in Herzegovina; however this intimidation has decreased. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Resettle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "Resettle" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 97.06% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
resettle | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "resettle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | risistemoj, strehoj (accommodate, billet, Canton, cover, embay, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, host, house, Lodge, quarter, refuge, shelter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سكن في ارض جديدة, أعاد التوطين, أعاد التعمير. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 再定居 (resettled, resettlement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přesídlit (evacuate, relocate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | repeupler (repopulate), rétablir (re establish, reinstate, restore, retrieve), implanter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | umsiedeln (to resettle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κανονίζω πάλι, οικίζω πάλι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszatesz (put back, reinstate, relaid, replace, to put back, to put in, to reinstate, to relay, to remit), áttelepül. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tenggelam lagi secara perlahan, mengatur ulang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ripopolare (re-introducing, repeople, repopulate, repopulation, restocking, stocking), stabilirsi (settle), insediarsi, far insediare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aahoiaghey (reset, resettlement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esettleray restabelecer (re establish, recuperate, redintegrate, reinstate, reset, restore, retrieve), voltar a colonizar, tranquilizar (pack, quiet, reassure, settle, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), pôr outra vez em ordem, instalar-se de novo, assentar (bottom, camp, clinch, deposit, enrol, enroll, fit, fit out, fit up, lay, place, plant, register, score, seat, shake down, strop), acalmar (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm down, cool, ease, hush, lay, lullaby, mollify, pacify, placate, quiet, relieve, salve, settle, simmer down, slow down, smooth, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references) restabili (piece up, re establish, recover, recruit, redintegrate, redress, rehabilitate, reinstate, reintroduce, reseat, reset, restore, retrieve), reinstala (reinstall). (various references) переселять (transmigrate). (various references) ponovo naseliti. (various references) restablecerse (recover, recuperate), restablecer (re establish, recruit, redintegrate, restore, revive, set up, to clear, to reset, to restore), volver a poblar, volver a establecerse, volver a establecer, volver a colonizar. (various references) flytta (check out, displace, edge, leave, manhandle, migrate, move, move house, remove, shift, shunt, transfer). (various references) yeniden yerleştirmek (reinstal), yeni düzenlemeler yapmak, yatışmak (calm down, come off the boil, cool, cool down, quiet, quiet down, settle, simmer down, still, subside), tekrar yerleşmek, sakinleşmek (become tranquilized, calm down, compose oneself, cool down, hush, let one's hair down, let up, quiet, quiet down, quieten, simmer down, slacken, smooth, smooth down, still, subside), dinlendirmek (let rest, recreate, repose, rest). (various references) переставляти (interchange, invert, permute, rearrange, reshuffle), переселяти (emigrate, transmigrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "resettle": resettled, resettlement, resettlements, resettles. (additional references) | |
Words containing "resettle": presettlement, presettlements. (additional references) | |
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"Resettle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: grisette. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "resettle" (pronounced rēse"tul) |
| 5 | -s e" t u l | settle, unsettle. |
| 4 | -e" t u l | betel, kettle, metal, mettle, nettle, petal. |
| 3 | -t u l | accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, infantile, infertile, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, scuttle, sentimental, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle, Wintle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: letters, settler, sterlet, teeters, trestle. | |
-2 letters: letter, relets, retest, settee, setter, settle, streel, street, teeter, terete, testee, tester. | |
-3 letters: ester, leers, leets, reels, reest, relet, resee, reset, sleet, steel, steer, stele, stere, teels, teles, terse, trees, trets. | |
-4 letters: eels, else, erst, leer, lees, leet, lest, lets, reel, rees, rest, rete, rets, seel, seer, sere. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: electrets, letterers, reletters, resettled, resettles, tercelets. | |
+2 letters: corselette, elaterites, newsletter, resettable, telecaster, telemeters. | |
+3 letters: cellarettes, corselettes, electorates, electrojets, flowerettes, letterheads, letterpress, letterspace, newsletters, shelterbelt, teetotalers, telecasters, telemetries, terneplates, textureless. | |
+4 letters: electrocutes, electrolytes, electrotypes, erectilities, heteroclites, interestedly, interrelates, intersterile, launderettes, leatherettes, letterspaces, literateness, preliterates, reenlistment, resettlement, semiliterate, shelterbelts, streetwalker, superathlete, teetotallers, teleprinters, teleutospore. | |
+5 letters: bachelorettes, bittersweetly, brittlenesses, coelenterates, electricities, electrometers, electroplates, electrotypers, etherealities, externalities, interpellates, letterpresses, presettlement, reenlistments, resettlements, semiliterates, streetwalkers, superathletes, telecommuters, telemarketers, teleutospores, tellurometers, welterweights. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 65 74 74 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ... . - - .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s e t t l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 0065 0074 0074 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271857186867871 |
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