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reˈhouse, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To house (a person, etc.) again; to provide with other houses. Also refl.
1820Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 709 [The suicide] may rehouse himself in a worse hogshead. 1904G. B. Shaw Common Sense of Municipal Trading viii. 75 The municipality bargains with the Local Government Board as to how many people it must rehouse. 1935Scrutiny IV. 134 The problem of re-housing the inhabitants after slum-clearance is at present dealt with unsatisfactorily. 1978Lancashire Life Apr. 105/1 This trolley can be moved freely on its castors, then re-housed in its own base unit. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Mar. 186/2, 5½ per cent of London's total built up area was bought and developed for railway use without any statutory responsibility to re-house the displaced residents.
Hence reˈhoused ppl. a. (also absol. or as n.); reˈhousing vbl. n.
1883Fortn. Rev. Oct. 599 Upon the principles here laid down the rehousing of the poor in towns can be accomplished without expense. 1890Spectator 11 Jan., We must make that inquiry if the question of rehousing is ever to be seriously dealt with. 1904G. B. Shaw Common Sense of Municipal Trading viii. 76 The displaced have solved the rehousing problem by crossing the river into Battersea. 1927Scots Observer 26 Feb. 2/5, I have seen the re-housed in their new environment. 1936‘G. Orwell’ Diary 27 Feb. in Coll. Essays (1968) I. 189 The re-housing is almost entirely the work of the Corporation. 1940Harrisson & Madge War begins at Home xii. 331 Many of the re-housed families would go back to their old homes if they had not been pulled down. 1966Listener 6 Oct. 511/1 The first few years after the war..saw the re-housing of Turner in the glory that he deserved. 1977G. Scott Hot Pursuit iii. 31 Singapore's progressive rehousing policies. |