relocate, verb transitive
- Origin:
- EnglishShow more Special sense of general English relocate move (to a different place).
resettle. Usually passive.
1968 Cole & Flaherty House of Bondage 52A ‘black spot’ is an African township marked for obliteration because it occupies an area into which whites wish to expand...It can literally be wiped off the map and its people relocated in Government-built housing projects in remote areas.
1986 P. Maylam Hist. of Afr. People 175The Surplus People Project has estimated that between 1960 and 1982 over three and a half million people have been relocated under the government’s resettlement policy.
resettle. Usually passive.
- Derivatives:
- Hence relocated participial adjective, resettled (see resettle); relocation noun, resettlement sense 1; also attributive.1968 Cole & Flaherty House of Bondage 52Authority for relocation lies in the so-called Group Areas Act of 1950...Once an area is designated white, those disqualified by skin color from remaining there must move out...A non-white reluctant to move is moved by force.1987 Weekly Mail 3 Apr. 10 (advt)Patrick Harries: oral testimony and the history of the relocated Makuleke community.
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