rehome

今日の単語はReader's Digest 10月号の記事SAVIOUR OF STRAYS [SINGAPORE]からです。
Now 43, Ling has fought Singapore's practice of culling lost animals by rescuing and rehoming countless cats for over 20 years, taking a maximum 15 at a time, rehoming the pedigreed first, and keeping the non-pedigree for herself.
野良猫を助けて "rehoming" する。だいたい意味は分かりますが、辞書で確認します。普通の辞書には出ていませんでしたが、次ぎの二つの辞書に分かり易い説明がありました。比較的最近使われるようになった言葉なのでしょう。
・Wiktionary: To find a new home for (especially of pets).: The cat recovered after treatment by a vet and has now been rehomed.
・Urban Dictionary: Modern euphemism for getting someone else to take responsibilty for an unwanted animal or pet. Rehoming an animal may include an exchange an exchange of money, from the person taking the animal to the person giving it away.
The term rehome may be gaining ground over a similarly used term, 'adopt', as in 'please adopt this animal my kids won't play with anymore.: I have two red-nosed, unspayed pitbull females that I need to rehome because I am moving.
この単語も直ぐに覚えられそうです。