verb
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Present
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rehousesimple
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rehousessimple
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have rehousedperfect
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has rehousedperfect
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am rehousingprogressive
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are rehousingprogressive
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is rehousingprogressive
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have been rehousingperfect progressive
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has been rehousingperfect progressive
Past
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rehousedsimple
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had rehousedperfect
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was rehousingprogressive
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were rehousingprogressive
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had been rehousingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of rehouse
Example Sentences
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There’s a vast chasm between doing nothing and spending money trying to rehouse this relative and manage all his affairs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
“It took us years to rehouse those animals,” Traverso said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
In 2020, Dr. Adams said, the Witte Museum received a grant to recatalog and rehouse its paleontology collections, with the goal of getting a paleontology program up and running.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
"Our priority throughout the whole incident was the safety of the residents involved and that was why the decision was taken to temporarily rehouse them," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2023
When the city presented a plan to the state last summer to rehouse Camp Hope’s residents, it included a funding proposal for a pallet village, said city spokesman Brian Coddington.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
The Chicago Roo Crew, which rehouses unwanted hens and roosters, fears that today’s spike in chick purchases could leave people dumping adult birds later.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
The United States rehouses the largest share of refugees in the programme, which in recent years has accounted for the majority of U.S. refugee intake.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2020
The family may receive a discretionary offer of succession or be rehoused, but Ms Thompson said she has not had anything in writing and is frustrated by "vague" conversations with housing officers.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
By completion in 2035, they will have rehoused 12,000 of Kiruna’s roughly 18,000 residents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
The 20 condemned women incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla will remain there, but have been rehoused in the general population.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
Some 800,000 people living in tents need to be rehoused.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
Nazario announced that Bodega would take care of pregnant women and one-parent families first, and that Blanca and I would be rehoused the very next day.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
Newly-discovered issues with the Belfast maternity hospital could add almost £10m to the project's spiralling costs, while the amount spent on repairs and rehousing patients at the Acute Mental Health facility has now reached £9.4m.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
More investment in these options, including Medicaid-funded rehousing subsidies for people leaving treatment facilities, would greatly increase access to these units, as well as recovery rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Alysoun Owen, who teaches English to Ukrainiains at the Aylesbury Vineyard church, says there are issues "after the six-month programme ended and over rehousing".
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
“Up until now families living in these areas were bearing the brunt of rehousing and rehabilitating the state’s sex offenders. That’s all about to change.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2024
In all this the question of rehousing the population, that had to be so carefully considered abroad in the destruction of slums, gave no trouble.
From A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
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