repeople
Americanverb (used with object)
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to furnish again with people.
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to restock with animals.
Etymology
Origin of repeople
First recorded in 1475–85, repeople is from the Middle French word repeupler, Old French. See re-, people
Example Sentences
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When she was interviewing people for jobs on the crew, people would tell Nighy they wanted to work on it because it resonated with them.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2022
But the people you can talk to are people in the crew, and I would spend a lot of time with crew people.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2021
They’re the neighborhood coffee crew people would invite into their homes, if only their neighbors lived closer, or if they spoke to them at all.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2019
Even the simplest sequences of people sitting and talking ring with the expensive exertions of an army of crew people rendering it honeyed and creamy, burnished and alluring.
From The New Yorker • May 3, 2019
Five crew people, who looked like they’d rather be doing anything else, surrounded the slouching old dog.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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