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# rehouse

«rehouse» in Mova's school dictionary: **to give them a new home, usually because their old one is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (rehouse, rehouses, rehoused, rehousing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To rehouse people is to give them a new home, usually because their old one is unsafe, destroyed or being knocked down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehouse/#m1)

2) To rehouse an animal is to find it a new home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehouse/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the news and social studies it is about floods, fires and old flats being pulled down; councils rehouse families. Animal shelters rehouse pets. Phrases: «be rehoused», «rehouse families».

### examples

- The families were rehoused after the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehouse/#x1)
- The council will rehouse everyone from the old tower block. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehouse/#x2)
- The shelter rehoused 30 dogs last month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehouse/#x3)
- After the fire they had to wait a week to be rehoused. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehouse/#x4)
- Volunteers helped rehouse the hedgehogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehouse/#x5)
- 12 families were rehoused, 4 in each new building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehouse/#x6)

### note

Mostly UK word; pronounce the s like z: «ree-HOWZ». Often passive: «they were rehoused». Not the same as «rehome», which is usually for pets, though rehouse can be used for both.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rehouse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rehouse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.