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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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straggler
English
Etymology
straggle +? -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?st?æ?l?/?
- (General American) IPA(key): /?st?æ?l?/, /?st?æ?l??/
- Hyphenation: strag?gler
Noun
straggler (plural stragglers)
- A person who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.
- One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.
- One who roams without any settled direction.
- A migratory animal found away from its usual range.
- A roving vagabond.
- Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
- Something that stands alone or by itself.
Derived terms
- blue straggler
Translations
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