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say it: ree-SET-uhl-muhnt
resettlement is a noun meaning "the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)". It is pronounced /ɹiˈsɛtəlmənt/ — ree-SET-uhl-muhnt. It carries one recorded sense.
the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for resettlement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.