noun
Meaning 1
The relocation of one or more people from one type of institutional facility to another (for example from a residential psychiatric hospital to a prison, a general hospital, or a nursing home), either intentionally (as a planned transfer) or as a side effect of another decision (such as a governmental decision to close residential mental hospitals).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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