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Resettlement

noun

The transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind). Synonym: relocation.

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"Resettlement" Quotes from Famous Books

... seats of learning were numerous enough to form a society of their own. The first organization was founded in 1882 in Vienna by Jewish students from Russia, Rumania, and Galicia, who entitled their society Kadimah, which means both 'Eastward' and 'Forward,' as an indication of the ideal of a resettlement in Palestine which they advocated. Since then, partly as a result of the advance of Zionism and partly as a result of the anti-Semitic attitude of the general students' corps on the Continent, separate societies have been formed by the Jewish students at almost every ...

— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various

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Words linked to "Resettlement" : transport, transportation, resettle, relocation, conveyance, transfer, transferral