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🏠 To give new home 📦 To move for protection
to rehouse

to rehouse

5.2
Put fragile items into safe storage to protect them
  • verb
  • /riːˈhaʊs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : reubicar
  • The archivists are rehousing fragile documents in acid-free folders to ensure their preservation.

Examples

  • After the renovation, the museum staff rehoused the ancient artifacts in climate-controlled cases.

  • Properly rehousing photographs can prevent damage from light and humidity over time.

  • The museum will rehouse the ancient artifacts next month.

  • They have rehoused the collection in a new display case.

  • The archivists are rehousing fragile documents in acid-free folders to ensure their preservation.

  • After the renovation, the museum staff rehoused the ancient artifacts in climate-controlled cases.

  • Properly rehousing photographs can prevent damage from light and humidity over time.

Synonyms

to remount
vsto rehouse
1 6.5

To put a part back in place after it was removed

moves items into new protective storage rather than reinstalling them
to reposit
vsto rehouse
1 9.9

To put something away in a safe place to keep it

involves moving items into new protective storage or casing
to rebase
vsto rehouse
  • Specialized
8.3

To attach a fragile artwork to a new support to keep it safe for display

moves objects into new protective storage or casing for preservation

Antonyms

to expose
479 3.2

Put someone in a situation where they can be harmed by something

How Protected

to encase
34 4.9
to archive
30 3.9
to rehouse
  • Specialized
5.2
to store
463 1.0

Surface Forms

rehouse infinitive
rehoused past
rehoused past participle
rehousing present participle
rehouses third person singular

Morphology

rehouse = house (semi-transparent) = re + house

The formation is regular, but this sense depends on the less common technical verb 'house' meaning to enclose or store equipment or objects.

Etymology

Rehouse is made from re- ('again') and house ('home' or 'shelter'), so it can also mean 'put into a new home' for things. So, to rehouse documents or objects is to move them into new, safer storage to protect them.