resettlement Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
    relocation.

WordNet

Re*set"tle*ment noun
Definitions
  1. Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees.
    The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.

Webster 1913