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Definition of "rehouse" [rehouse]

  • To provide with new, usually improved housing. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "rehouse" in a sentence
  • "The Act also provides for $2 billion in new Neighborhood Stabilization Funds to help maintain ailing neighborhoods and $1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people in their homes or rapidly rehouse them;"
  • "The Filipino government claims it would cost about a third of the national budget to rehouse Manila's slum dwellers."
  • "They are advertising government plans to rehouse the 1.3 million people who live in the Khayelitsha township."