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Noun: resettlement  ree'setulmunt
  1. The transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
    - relocation

Derived forms: resettlements

See also: resettle

Type of: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation

Encyclopedia: Resettlement