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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
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displaced
English
Verb
displaced
- simple past tense and past participle of displace
Derived terms
- displaced homemaker
- displaced person
displaced From the web:
- what displaced mean
- what displaced homemaker mean
- what displaced worker
- what is meant by displaced fracture
- what displaced employee
- displaced worker meaning
- displaced person meaning
- what's displaced fluid
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