different between poverty vs refugee
poverty
English
Etymology
From Middle English poverte, from Old French poverté (Modern French pauvreté), from Latin paupert?s, from pauper (“poor”) + -tas (“noun of state suffix”). Cognates include pauper, poor.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?v?ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??v?ti/
Noun
poverty (usually uncountable, plural poverties)
- The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
- Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:poverty
Antonyms
- See also Thesaurus:wealth
Derived terms
- energy poverty
- period poverty
- poverty line
- poverty of the stimulus
- poverty-ridden
- poverty-stricken
- primary poverty
- secondary poverty
- transport poverty
Related terms
- poor
- poorness
Translations
See also
- aporophobia
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refugee
English
Etymology
From French réfugié, past participle of réfugier (“to take refuge”), describing early French Protestants seeking refuge after the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???fj?d?i?/, /??fj??d?i?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Noun
refugee (plural refugees)
- A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in their home country, i.e., a person seeking political asylum.
- A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster, war, etc.
- A person formally granted political or economic asylum by a country other than their home country.
- (by extension) A person who flees one place or institution for another.
- 2010, Brian Harrison, Finding a Role?: The United Kingdom 1970-1990 (page 2181)
- Why did the SDP dream eventually fade? Partly because it succeeded far better inside parliament than out. It might attract some inner-city Catholic traditionalist Labour refugees from Labour's left, but many of those were already gentrifying.
- 2010, Brian Harrison, Finding a Role?: The United Kingdom 1970-1990 (page 2181)
Derived terms
- rapefugee
- reffo
- refugeehood
- refugitive
Translations
Verb
refugee (third-person singular simple present refugees, present participle refugeeing, simple past and past participle refugeed)
- (transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.
See also
- asylum
- citizenshipless
- countryless
- economic asylum
- nationless
- political asylum
- refoulement
- refuge
refugee From the web:
- what refugees
- what refugee means
- what refugees go through
- what refugees are coming to the us
- what refugees are in greece
- what refugees come to america
- what refugees are in italy
- what refugees bring with them
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