resettlementn.

Brit.

/ˌriːˈsɛtlm(ə)nt/, U.S.

/riˈsɛdlm(ə)nt/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, settlement n.

Etymology: < re- prefix + settlement n., after resettle v.In senses 2 and Compounds 1 sometimes with reference to official policies in various countries. With sense 2b compare Afrikaans hervestiging (1954 or earlier in this sense). The policy was set down in English in the Natives Resettlement Act of 1954, but several of the compounds appear earlier in Afrikaans.

a. The act of restoring a settled state or condition.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > restoring to order

resettlementa1639

sort-out1961

a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 103 Whenceforth we may account a full Re-settlement of Lordship and propriety through the Realm.

1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. vi. 341 Necessary for the Re-settlement of the Affairs of the Kingdom.

1786 J. Gillies Hist. Anc. Greece I. xvi. 563 (margin) Resettlement of affairs in Lesbos.

1816 J. Owen Hist. Origin & First Ten Years Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc. (1817) iii. ii. 569 The dawn of those successes on the Continent, which terminated at length in the deliverance and resettlement of Europe, had a very propitious effect on the Society's general interests.

1867 F. H. Hill Questions for Reformed Parl. viii. 256 It demands a genuine alliance of England with France; an alliance of which the avowed aim should be to promote..the progress of Europe towards complete resettlement, to guarantee her against..violent and selfish disturbance of the existing order.

1892 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 263/1 In not a few minds there must be a consciousness of more unsettlement than resettlement of moral ideas and standards.

1918 J. Bryce Ess. & Addr. in Wartime vii. 171 Can any plan be devised by which the Allied nations could give the country a prospect of order and peace? Here, however, the questions involved are not primarily those of Nationality..so here our survey of that particular aspect of the Resettlement of the Near Eastern World may close.

1946 S. Willis Public Papers (1988) 309 The aftermath of war brings new and difficult problems of readjustment and resettlement.

1957 E. C. McReynolds Seminoles xix. 313 On September 8, 1865,..a conference was convened at Fort Smith for the purpose of beginning a resettlement of Indian Affairs.

b. Chiefly Law. The act of making a new settlement.

ΚΠ

1779 J. Brown Rep. High Court Parl. 1 343 Under the limitations of this re-settlement, the appellant..became entitled as heir male of that marriage, to the estate in question.

1819 Some Acct. Life R. Wriothesley Lady Russell 49 The measures to be taken for the resettlement of her sister's trust.

1886 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 31 255 There will be no practical difficulty in making the resettlement clerically stand so as to effect the real intention of the parties.

1901 W. J. Strachan Pract. Conveyancing v. 108 In the case under notice there was a jointure rent-charge created by a deed of 1865, and a life estate of the vendor created under a resettlement of 1889.

1925 Colombia Law Rev. 25 611 The terms of the original settlement still remained on foot and were paramount to the dispositions of the resettlement.

1966 H. C. Darby in S. Clissold Short Hist. Yugoslavia (1968) v. 68 The Treaty of San Stefano (March 1878) proposed a radical resettlement of Balkan frontiers, and provided for reforms in Bosnia.

2001 J. V. Beckett & S. Aley Byron & Newstead iii. 62 He and his son would agree on a resettlement in which various estates could be freed up for sale.

a. The act of resettling, or of resettling a person or group, in a place of residence.

ΚΠ

1674 C. Cotton tr. B. de Montluc Commentaries vii. 346 To make him an offer every man to die with him for his Majesties service, and the resettlement of every one in his own house [Fr. pour s'aider à remettre en leurs maisons].

1744 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl. in Wks. (1788) VI. 334 The Return from the great Captivity, and Resettlement in the Land of Judæa.

1800 J. Bicheno Restoration Jews i. 40 Their enemies shall oppose their resettlement in their own land.

1847 E. B. Elliott Horæ Apoc. (ed. 3) III. vi. ii. 35 I refer to..their issuing, forthwith on their resettlement at Rome, of official bulls, allocutions, and indulgences.

1889 Jewish Q. Rev. 1 89 (heading) Four of the oldest epitaphs after the resettlement of the Jews in England.

1928 Geogr. Jrnl. 72 393 The difficulty of resettlement on a large scale in an uninfected area lies in adapting the settlers to their new surroundings.

1949 N. Jasny Socialized Agric. U.S.S.R. iii. xiii. 312 Mere resettlement of the kulaki to other agricultural areas would not have affected the total number of peasant households.

2003 M. Kristmanson Plateaus of Freedom i. 7 The second event of that day was Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, leading to the forced resettlement of Japanese Canadians.

b. South African (now historical). The act of compulsorily resettling black Africans in specially designated, esp. rural, areas.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [noun] > in homeland

resettlement1954

1954 Bantu Nov. 11 (caption) Compare these neat little houses with the unhygienic tin and brick shacks of Sophiatown..and you would understand why the resettlement of the Bantu had become imperative.

1976 A. Lemon Apartheid viii. 153 The further resettlement of up to half the existing number of Africans in white areas is being seriously contemplated.

2004 Canad. Jrnl. Afr. Stud. 38 514 The act excluded from the scrutiny of the commission what might be called the systematic abuses that were intrinsic to the apartheid system: for instance, those millions who were dispossessed of their land and property by forced removals and resettlement.

3. The process or result of settling down again, esp. in the same place or on the same surface.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding > re-establishment

resettling1626

resettlement1675

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun] > settling again

resettling1626

resettlement1675

1675 J. Rose Eng. Vineyard 44 Others, roll their Casks about the Cellar to blend with the Lees, and after few daies resettlement rack it off.

1698 W. Whiston Vindic. New Theory Earth xii. 26 Those who..suppose the Waters of the Deluge to have been indifferent pure..should see reason to insist upon the Dissolution of the Old Earth, and the Resettlement of the same again at the Deluge.

1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall viii. 257 The white clay there situated might be a resettlement of the Bovey clay.

1867 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 36: Pt. i 37 There is also..a great similarity of lithological character between the two formations, one being merely the resettlement of the other.

1973 Geografiska Annaler A 55 27 Following resettlement of the soil hydrostatic pressure would be reduced as water was expelled at the surface.

2003 H. Thiel in P. A. Tyler Ecosystems of Deep Oceans xiii. 453/1 Outside the physically disturbed tracks the megafauna survived the drifting plumes from ploughing and resettlement of the sediment.

4. The act of resettling a place with inhabitants or settlers.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > [noun] > again

resettlement1753

recolonization1774

1753 T. Harrington Century-serm. 16 During this Dispersion of the Lancaster People, the Rev. Mr. Rowlandson, was invited to preach at Weathersfield in the Colony of Cennecticut, and died before the Resettlement of the Town.

1848 J. W. Barber Hist. Coll. 576 From 1680 to 1692 the inhabitants were not molested in the resettlement of the town.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 217 It is a great mistake to suppose that the whole of the landholders in Bengal would cry out against a resettlement of that province.

1900 J. Bryce Impressions S. Afr. (ed. 3) 35 Arrangements have to be made for the resettlement of the country.

1926 J. D. Duff tr. M. I. Rostovtzeff Hist. Anc. World I. xii. 182 The distribution of these dialects in Greece, the islands, and Asia Minor, throws light on the process by which the resettlement of Greece by Greek stocks took place.

1991 P. James et al. Cent. of Darkness (1992) viii. 186 The Assyrian deportation of the Israelites and resettlement of the site with foreigners from Syria and Babylonia.

2006 J. R. Ballard Fighting for Fallujah vi. 83 The modification..specified that MEF forces would support the IIG in the resettlement of the city of Fallujah and the reestablishment of governmental control and central services.

5. The act of settling a person back into former circumstances; spec. the act of resettling demobilized service personnel into civilian life.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [noun] > of a person, country, or industry after war > of servicemen into civilian life

resettlement1918

1918 Labour Gaz. May 175/1 (heading) Resettlement of officers and professional men... The report of the Committee appointed to consider the resettlement of officers has been approved by the Minister of Reconstruction.

1945 Yorks. Post 19 Apr. 3/2 The Minister of Labour has provided several admirably chosen lecturers..to tell Servicemen of the plans made for their release and resettlement when their term of service comes to an end.

1955 European Yearbk. (Council of Europe) III. iii. 183 Rehabilitation and resettlement of paraplegics, epileptics and patients affected by cardiac rheumatism.

1987 V. Stern Bricks of Shame (1989) xiii. 246 The public..consists of careers officers, housing managers, teachers and lecturers, members of voluntary organizations—all of whom can contribute to the resettlement of ex-prisoners.

2007 M. Kivlehan-Wise in D. M. Finkelstein Civil-military Relations in Today's China xiii. 261 The Circular laid the groundwork for standardizing local governments' approaches to conscript resettlement throughout the PRC.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (esp. in sense 2).

resettlement area n. [with use in South Africa compare Afrikaans hervestigingsgebied (1961 or earlier)]

ΚΠ

1970 Surv. of Race Rel. (S.A.I.R.R.) 126 The Rand Daily Mail featured a report on a resettlement area at Morsgat, called Madikwe.., where some 300 families..had been moved.

2004 Jrnl. S. Afr. Stud. 30 330 The Department had drafted and implemented settlement plans similar to that of the resettlement area for the Glen Grey and Herschel people.

resettlement board n. [with use in South Africa compare Afrikaans hervestigingsraad (1954 or earlier); with Natives Resettlement Board (see 1954) compare Afrikaans Raad vir die Hervestiging van Naturelle (a1955 or earlier)]

ΚΠ

1947 Afr. Affairs 46 129 Mathu and S. V. Cooke..have resigned from the Resettlement board, which is making ‘inadequate’ progress.

1954 Bantu Nov. 4 The views expressed in this article are personal and in no way bind the Department or the Natives Resettlement Board.

1999 C. Graham Place of Safety 77 Of course he knows. He's on the resettlement board.

resettlement camp n. [with use in South Africa compare Afrikaans hervestigingskamp (1971 or earlier)]

ΚΠ

1947 Jrnl. Polit. 9 121 In connection with a discussion of resettlement camps, the author apparently considers it necessary to give the reader information concerning the amount of straw provided for bedding.

1970 Cape Times 5 June 70 Black ‘labour force units’ are tolerated in urban ‘bachelor quarters’ while their ‘superfluous appendages’ are removed from their ‘dwelling units’ and ‘repatriated’ to ‘resettlement camps’.

1991 J. Rifkin Biosphere Politics i. x. 75 Millions of families are abandoning the land and streaming into urban areas that more closely resemble resettlement camps than functioning communities.

resettlement centre n.

ΚΠ

1973 Guardian 16 Apr. 20/1 No more Uganda Asians will be allowed into the resettlement centres.

1999 Brit. Jrnl. Middle Eastern Stud. 26 258 If the relocatees did not find at the chosen site for the centre the possibilities of normal life then the resettlement centre would become a hearth of misery and discontent.

resettlement grant n.

ΚΠ

1959 Econ. Devel. & Cultural Change 7 311 In order to carry out the land redistribution program, sufficient finance has to be found..for providing resettlement grants and production loans to the new recipients of land.

2003 J. Rutter Supporting Refugee Children in 21st Cent. Brit. (rev. ed.) i. iii. 46 A Resettlement Grant comprising advice and counselling,..onward transportation to the final destination, and a grant of up to £2,500 per household.

resettlement office n.

ΚΠ

1945 Daily Tel. 17 May 3/3 They would be welcomed at the employment exchanges and the resettlement offices if they had not got a job.

1999 China Q. 158 469 In the resettlement office of the Guangxi Hydroelectric Bureau 70% of the 23 persons had received some training.

resettlement officer n.

ΚΠ

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 821/1 A number of officers known as Resettlement Officers were appointed.., whose business was to travel the country and investigate the causes which impeded the turnover from war to peace.

1946 Lancet 2 Feb. 177/1 Our resettlement officer almost got the job, but like me he didn't have the Finnish, or the Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish, without which, out there, the execution of big business is apparently impossible.

1999 J. Cassidy Street Life 47 There were no staff at this place, apart from a cleaner who came for two hours Monday to Friday. There was no support, no resettlement officer; there was nothing.

resettlement plan n.

ΚΠ

1937 Eng. Jrnl. 26 465 When the government launched out on a resettlement plan, sending Minnesota and Michigan farmers to Alaska, many of the students met the train, [etc.]

2004 Jrnl. S. Afr. Stud. 30 330 The primary objective of this resettlement plan was to divide the new areas into residential, arable and grazing allotments.

resettlement programme n.

ΚΠ

1934 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 16 126 The advantages of a county unit school system or county highway system in contrast with the present town system might be studied in conjunction with a zoning and resettlement program.

1973 J. Hoagland South Afr. xi. 299 The Portuguese moved quickly to establish the resettlement program in Mozambique.

1998 Economist 21 Mar. 87/2 A report issued on March 12th by two American groups, International Rivers Network and Human Rights in China, claims the resettlement programme is floundering.

resettlement project n.

ΚΠ

1935 State Planning (U.S. Nat. Resources Board) ii. 31 A submarginal land purchase and resettlement project was planned and is now under way.

1994 Austral. Jrnl. Chinese Affairs No. 32. 144 The resettlement project entailed the reforging of kinship and neighbourly relationships and the cultivation of communal bonds.

resettlement scheme n. [with use in South Africa compare Afrikaans hervestigingskema]

ΚΠ

1921 W. Sherren Rights of Ex-Service Man & Woman iii. 23 The Civil Liabilities Resettlement Scheme of 1918 was instituted to provide assistance to ex-officers and men who had suffered serious hardship by reason of their military service.

1954 Bantu Sept. 44 Throughout the ages various Resettlement Schemes have been undertaken similar to the Scheme of the Western Areas of Johannesburg.

1990 L. Ngcobo And they didn't Die iv. 51 There were the rehabilitation schemes, the resettlement schemes..and many such fine-sounding terms.

resettlement village n.

ΚΠ

1952 Times 22 Sept. 5/1 Volunteer teams..after receiving a short course of instruction in spoken Malay..live in the new resettlement villages.

2006 J. Alexander Unsettled Land vi. 129 In Plumtree, dissidents attacked a resettlement village in Dombodema, beating the settlers and burning their homes.

C2.

Resettlement Administration n. U.S. (now historical) a government agency (1935–7) established under the New Deal to administer a number of measures intended to alleviate rural poverty, including one through which impoverished families were relocated to new planned communities.

ΚΠ

1935 Chester (Pa.) Times 1 May 11 President Roosevelt today started Brain Truster Rexford Tugwell on his phase of the gigantic works-relief program by signing three executive orders that set up the Resettlement Administration.

2003 Agric. Hist. 77 325 Each of these photographers were employed by the Resettlement Administration, which was established in 1935, to alleviate rural poverty and assist people dislocated by the industrialization of farming and natural disasters such as the Dust Bowl.

Resettlement Day n. now historical a day designated by the Jewish Historical Society of England to commemorate the resettlement of Jews in England in the 17th cent.

ΚΠ

1894 Birmingham Daily Post 5 Feb. 5/1 To-day is being celebrated as ‘Resettlement Day’ by the Jewish Historical Society of England, as the first in what is intended to be a series of annual celebrations on February 4 on the resettlement of the Jews in this country by the Lord Protector Oliver.

1904 Jewish Q. Rev. 16 335 For a number of years a learned society claiming an important place in the Jewish community has held a public dinner in the early days of February to celebrate what it has been pleased to call ‘Resettlement Day’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	resettlement
释义	resettlementn. Brit. /ˌriːˈsɛtlm(ə)nt/, U.S. /riˈsɛdlm(ə)nt/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, settlement n. Etymology: < re- prefix + settlement n., after resettle v.In senses 2 and Compounds 1 sometimes with reference to official policies in various countries. With sense 2b compare Afrikaans hervestiging (1954 or earlier in this sense). The policy was set down in English in the Natives Resettlement Act of 1954, but several of the compounds appear earlier in Afrikaans. 1. a. The act of restoring a settled state or condition. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > restoring to order resettlementa1639 sort-out1961 a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 103 Whenceforth we may account a full Re-settlement of Lordship and propriety through the Realm. 1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. vi. 341 Necessary for the Re-settlement of the Affairs of the Kingdom. 1786 J. Gillies Hist. Anc. Greece I. xvi. 563 (margin) Resettlement of affairs in Lesbos. 1816 J. Owen Hist. Origin & First Ten Years Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc. (1817) iii. ii. 569 The dawn of those successes on the Continent, which terminated at length in the deliverance and resettlement of Europe, had a very propitious effect on the Society's general interests. 1867 F. H. Hill Questions for Reformed Parl. viii. 256 It demands a genuine alliance of England with France; an alliance of which the avowed aim should be to promote..the progress of Europe towards complete resettlement, to guarantee her against..violent and selfish disturbance of the existing order. 1892 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 263/1 In not a few minds there must be a consciousness of more unsettlement than resettlement of moral ideas and standards. 1918 J. Bryce Ess. & Addr. in Wartime vii. 171 Can any plan be devised by which the Allied nations could give the country a prospect of order and peace? Here, however, the questions involved are not primarily those of Nationality..so here our survey of that particular aspect of the Resettlement of the Near Eastern World may close. 1946 S. Willis Public Papers (1988) 309 The aftermath of war brings new and difficult problems of readjustment and resettlement. 1957 E. C. McReynolds Seminoles xix. 313 On September 8, 1865,..a conference was convened at Fort Smith for the purpose of beginning a resettlement of Indian Affairs. b. Chiefly Law. The act of making a new settlement. ΚΠ 1779 J. Brown Rep. High Court Parl. 1 343 Under the limitations of this re-settlement, the appellant..became entitled as heir male of that marriage, to the estate in question. 1819 Some Acct. Life R. Wriothesley Lady Russell 49 The measures to be taken for the resettlement of her sister's trust. 1886 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 31 255 There will be no practical difficulty in making the resettlement clerically stand so as to effect the real intention of the parties. 1901 W. J. Strachan Pract. Conveyancing v. 108 In the case under notice there was a jointure rent-charge created by a deed of 1865, and a life estate of the vendor created under a resettlement of 1889. 1925 Colombia Law Rev. 25 611 The terms of the original settlement still remained on foot and were paramount to the dispositions of the resettlement. 1966 H. C. Darby in S. Clissold Short Hist. Yugoslavia (1968) v. 68 The Treaty of San Stefano (March 1878) proposed a radical resettlement of Balkan frontiers, and provided for reforms in Bosnia. 2001 J. V. Beckett & S. Aley Byron & Newstead iii. 62 He and his son would agree on a resettlement in which various estates could be freed up for sale. 2. a. The act of resettling, or of resettling a person or group, in a place of residence. ΚΠ 1674 C. Cotton tr. B. de Montluc Commentaries vii. 346 To make him an offer every man to die with him for his Majesties service, and the resettlement of every one in his own house [Fr. pour s'aider à remettre en leurs maisons]. 1744 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl. in Wks. (1788) VI. 334 The Return from the great Captivity, and Resettlement in the Land of Judæa. 1800 J. Bicheno Restoration Jews i. 40 Their enemies shall oppose their resettlement in their own land. 1847 E. B. Elliott Horæ Apoc. (ed. 3) III. vi. ii. 35 I refer to..their issuing, forthwith on their resettlement at Rome, of official bulls, allocutions, and indulgences. 1889 Jewish Q. Rev. 1 89 (heading) Four of the oldest epitaphs after the resettlement of the Jews in England. 1928 Geogr. Jrnl. 72 393 The difficulty of resettlement on a large scale in an uninfected area lies in adapting the settlers to their new surroundings. 1949 N. Jasny Socialized Agric. U.S.S.R. iii. xiii. 312 Mere resettlement of the kulaki to other agricultural areas would not have affected the total number of peasant households. 2003 M. Kristmanson Plateaus of Freedom i. 7 The second event of that day was Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, leading to the forced resettlement of Japanese Canadians. b. South African (now historical). The act of compulsorily resettling black Africans in specially designated, esp. rural, areas. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [noun] > in homeland resettlement1954 1954 Bantu Nov. 11 (caption) Compare these neat little houses with the unhygienic tin and brick shacks of Sophiatown..and you would understand why the resettlement of the Bantu had become imperative. 1976 A. Lemon Apartheid viii. 153 The further resettlement of up to half the existing number of Africans in white areas is being seriously contemplated. 2004 Canad. Jrnl. Afr. Stud. 38 514 The act excluded from the scrutiny of the commission what might be called the systematic abuses that were intrinsic to the apartheid system: for instance, those millions who were dispossessed of their land and property by forced removals and resettlement. 3. The process or result of settling down again, esp. in the same place or on the same surface. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding > re-establishment resettling1626 resettlement1675 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun] > settling again resettling1626 resettlement1675 1675 J. Rose Eng. Vineyard 44 Others, roll their Casks about the Cellar to blend with the Lees, and after few daies resettlement rack it off. 1698 W. Whiston Vindic. New Theory Earth xii. 26 Those who..suppose the Waters of the Deluge to have been indifferent pure..should see reason to insist upon the Dissolution of the Old Earth, and the Resettlement of the same again at the Deluge. 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall viii. 257 The white clay there situated might be a resettlement of the Bovey clay. 1867 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 36: Pt. i 37 There is also..a great similarity of lithological character between the two formations, one being merely the resettlement of the other. 1973 Geografiska Annaler A 55 27 Following resettlement of the soil hydrostatic pressure would be reduced as water was expelled at the surface. 2003 H. Thiel in P. A. Tyler Ecosystems of Deep Oceans xiii. 453/1 Outside the physically disturbed tracks the megafauna survived the drifting plumes from ploughing and resettlement of the sediment. 4. The act of resettling a place with inhabitants or settlers. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > [noun] > again resettlement1753 recolonization1774 1753 T. Harrington Century-serm. 16 During this Dispersion of the Lancaster People, the Rev. Mr. Rowlandson, was invited to preach at Weathersfield in the Colony of Cennecticut, and died before the Resettlement of the Town. 1848 J. W. Barber Hist. Coll. 576 From 1680 to 1692 the inhabitants were not molested in the resettlement of the town. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 217 It is a great mistake to suppose that the whole of the landholders in Bengal would cry out against a resettlement of that province. 1900 J. Bryce Impressions S. Afr. (ed. 3) 35 Arrangements have to be made for the resettlement of the country. 1926 J. D. Duff tr. M. I. Rostovtzeff Hist. Anc. World I. xii. 182 The distribution of these dialects in Greece, the islands, and Asia Minor, throws light on the process by which the resettlement of Greece by Greek stocks took place. 1991 P. James et al. Cent. of Darkness (1992) viii. 186 The Assyrian deportation of the Israelites and resettlement of the site with foreigners from Syria and Babylonia. 2006 J. R. Ballard Fighting for Fallujah vi. 83 The modification..specified that MEF forces would support the IIG in the resettlement of the city of Fallujah and the reestablishment of governmental control and central services. 5. The act of settling a person back into former circumstances; spec. the act of resettling demobilized service personnel into civilian life. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [noun] > of a person, country, or industry after war > of servicemen into civilian life resettlement1918 1918 Labour Gaz. May 175/1 (heading) Resettlement of officers and professional men... The report of the Committee appointed to consider the resettlement of officers has been approved by the Minister of Reconstruction. 1945 Yorks. Post 19 Apr. 3/2 The Minister of Labour has provided several admirably chosen lecturers..to tell Servicemen of the plans made for their release and resettlement when their term of service comes to an end. 1955 European Yearbk. (Council of Europe) III. iii. 183 Rehabilitation and resettlement of paraplegics, epileptics and patients affected by cardiac rheumatism. 1987 V. Stern Bricks of Shame (1989) xiii. 246 The public..consists of careers officers, housing managers, teachers and lecturers, members of voluntary organizations—all of whom can contribute to the resettlement of ex-prisoners. 2007 M. Kivlehan-Wise in D. M. Finkelstein Civil-military Relations in Today's China xiii. 261 The Circular laid the groundwork for standardizing local governments' approaches to conscript resettlement throughout the PRC. Compounds C1. General attributive (esp. in sense 2). resettlement area n. [with use in South Africa compare Afrikaans hervestigingsgebied (1961 or earlier)] ΚΠ 1970 Surv. of Race Rel. (S.A.I.R.R.) 126 The Rand Daily Mail featured a report on a resettlement area at Morsgat, called Madikwe.., where some 300 families..had been moved. 2004 Jrnl. S. Afr. Stud. 30 330 The Department had drafted and implemented settlement plans similar to that of the resettlement area for the Glen Grey and Herschel people. resettlement board n. [with use in South Africa compare Afrikaans hervestigingsraad (1954 or earlier); with Natives Resettlement Board (see 1954) compare Afrikaans Raad vir die Hervestiging van Naturelle (a1955 or earlier)] ΚΠ 1947 Afr. Affairs 46 129 Mathu and S. V. Cooke..have resigned from the Resettlement board, which is making ‘inadequate’ progress. 1954 Bantu Nov. 4 The views expressed in this article are personal and in no way bind the Department or the Natives Resettlement Board. 1999 C. Graham Place of Safety 77 Of course he knows. He's on the resettlement board. resettlement camp n. [with use in South Africa compare Afrikaans hervestigingskamp (1971 or earlier)] ΚΠ 1947 Jrnl. Polit. 9 121 In connection with a discussion of resettlement camps, the author apparently considers it necessary to give the reader information concerning the amount of straw provided for bedding. 1970 Cape Times 5 June 70 Black ‘labour force units’ are tolerated in urban ‘bachelor quarters’ while their ‘superfluous appendages’ are removed from their ‘dwelling units’ and ‘repatriated’ to ‘resettlement camps’. 1991 J. Rifkin Biosphere Politics i. x. 75 Millions of families are abandoning the land and streaming into urban areas that more closely resemble resettlement camps than functioning communities. resettlement centre n. ΚΠ 1973 Guardian 16 Apr. 20/1 No more Uganda Asians will be allowed into the resettlement centres. 1999 Brit. Jrnl. Middle Eastern Stud. 26 258 If the relocatees did not find at the chosen site for the centre the possibilities of normal life then the resettlement centre would become a hearth of misery and discontent. resettlement grant n. ΚΠ 1959 Econ. Devel. & Cultural Change 7 311 In order to carry out the land redistribution program, sufficient finance has to be found..for providing resettlement grants and production loans to the new recipients of land. 2003 J. Rutter Supporting Refugee Children in 21st Cent. Brit. (rev. ed.) i. iii. 46 A Resettlement Grant comprising advice and counselling,..onward transportation to the final destination, and a grant of up to £2,500 per household. resettlement office n. ΚΠ 1945 Daily Tel. 17 May 3/3 They would be welcomed at the employment exchanges and the resettlement offices if they had not got a job. 1999 China Q. 158 469 In the resettlement office of the Guangxi Hydroelectric Bureau 70% of the 23 persons had received some training. resettlement officer n. ΚΠ 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 821/1 A number of officers known as Resettlement Officers were appointed.., whose business was to travel the country and investigate the causes which impeded the turnover from war to peace. 1946 Lancet 2 Feb. 177/1 Our resettlement officer almost got the job, but like me he didn't have the Finnish, or the Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish, without which, out there, the execution of big business is apparently impossible. 1999 J. Cassidy Street Life 47 There were no staff at this place, apart from a cleaner who came for two hours Monday to Friday. There was no support, no resettlement officer; there was nothing. resettlement plan n. ΚΠ 1937 Eng. Jrnl. 26 465 When the government launched out on a resettlement plan, sending Minnesota and Michigan farmers to Alaska, many of the students met the train, [etc.] 2004 Jrnl. S. Afr. Stud. 30 330 The primary objective of this resettlement plan was to divide the new areas into residential, arable and grazing allotments. resettlement programme n. ΚΠ 1934 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 16 126 The advantages of a county unit school system or county highway system in contrast with the present town system might be studied in conjunction with a zoning and resettlement program. 1973 J. Hoagland South Afr. xi. 299 The Portuguese moved quickly to establish the resettlement program in Mozambique. 1998 Economist 21 Mar. 87/2 A report issued on March 12th by two American groups, International Rivers Network and Human Rights in China, claims the resettlement programme is floundering. resettlement project n. ΚΠ 1935 State Planning (U.S. Nat. Resources Board) ii. 31 A submarginal land purchase and resettlement project was planned and is now under way. 1994 Austral. Jrnl. Chinese Affairs No. 32. 144 The resettlement project entailed the reforging of kinship and neighbourly relationships and the cultivation of communal bonds. resettlement scheme n. [with use in South Africa compare Afrikaans hervestigingskema] ΚΠ 1921 W. Sherren Rights of Ex-Service Man & Woman iii. 23 The Civil Liabilities Resettlement Scheme of 1918 was instituted to provide assistance to ex-officers and men who had suffered serious hardship by reason of their military service. 1954 Bantu Sept. 44 Throughout the ages various Resettlement Schemes have been undertaken similar to the Scheme of the Western Areas of Johannesburg. 1990 L. Ngcobo And they didn't Die iv. 51 There were the rehabilitation schemes, the resettlement schemes..and many such fine-sounding terms. resettlement village n. ΚΠ 1952 Times 22 Sept. 5/1 Volunteer teams..after receiving a short course of instruction in spoken Malay..live in the new resettlement villages. 2006 J. Alexander Unsettled Land vi. 129 In Plumtree, dissidents attacked a resettlement village in Dombodema, beating the settlers and burning their homes. C2. Resettlement Administration n. U.S. (now historical) a government agency (1935–7) established under the New Deal to administer a number of measures intended to alleviate rural poverty, including one through which impoverished families were relocated to new planned communities. ΚΠ 1935 Chester (Pa.) Times 1 May 11 President Roosevelt today started Brain Truster Rexford Tugwell on his phase of the gigantic works-relief program by signing three executive orders that set up the Resettlement Administration. 2003 Agric. Hist. 77 325 Each of these photographers were employed by the Resettlement Administration, which was established in 1935, to alleviate rural poverty and assist people dislocated by the industrialization of farming and natural disasters such as the Dust Bowl. Resettlement Day n. now historical a day designated by the Jewish Historical Society of England to commemorate the resettlement of Jews in England in the 17th cent. ΚΠ 1894 Birmingham Daily Post 5 Feb. 5/1 To-day is being celebrated as ‘Resettlement Day’ by the Jewish Historical Society of England, as the first in what is intended to be a series of annual celebrations on February 4 on the resettlement of the Jews in this country by the Lord Protector Oliver. 1904 Jewish Q. Rev. 16 335 For a number of years a learned society claiming an important place in the Jewish community has held a public dinner in the early days of February to celebrate what it has been pleased to call ‘Resettlement Day’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1639
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