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
"I would be hoping that Clanmil would obviously be able to rehouse me, because where else am I supposed to go with me and my children. There is nowhere for us to go."
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
“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
While the state has pitched in over $24 million to rehouse and provide services to the residents of Camp Hope, additional funds are necessary to finish the job, Beggs said.
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
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
As soon as the BBC became involved, the family were rehoused within 48 hours.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
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
Only 13% of nonveterans facing an acute crisis will get emergency cash or rapid rehousing assistance, as compared with 65% of veterans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
"It isn't just a roof over your head, it's trained support workers who can do therapeutic work with children, help with rehousing - it's planning a new life."
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
These resources could be focused on rehousing displaced families as quickly as possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday pushed the head of the county’s homeless initiative and other county leaders to move faster in cleaning up RV encampments and rehousing those residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
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 Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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