rehousev.
/ˌriːˈhaʊz/, U.S. /riˈhaʊz/ transitive. To house again, esp. to provide (a person or group of people) with new housing.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > in house
houseOE
inhouse1595
enhouse1596
lodge1764
rehouse1817
roof1820
rehome1857
1817 T. Starkie Rep. Cases King's Bench I. 104 The plaintiffs then directed the London Dock Company to rehouse the goods in the name of the plaintiffs.
1820 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 709 [The suicide] may rehouse himself in a worse hogshead.
1885 Times 9 May 12/3 If all London were re-housed tomorrow, insanitary conditions would prevail within a month.
1904 G. B. Shaw Common Sense of Munic. Trading viii. 75 The municipality bargains with the Local Government Board as to how many people it must rehouse.
1935 Scrutiny 4 134 The problem of re-housing the inhabitants after slum-clearance is at present dealt with unsatisfactorily.
1978 Lancashire Life Apr. 105/1 This trolley can be moved freely on its castors, then re-housed in its own base unit.
1993 T. Parker May Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast (1994) xiii. 222 While people can be and are being rehoused, there's still little being done about the employment situation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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