refugee
IPA: rˈɛfjudʒi
noun
- 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.
verb
- (transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.
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Examples of "refugee" in Sentences
- The villagers and the refugees mourn.
- The camp is the smallest refugee camp.
- He became the commander of the refugee camp.
- Among the refugees were the elderly and women.
- The hangar was used as a rendezvous for the refugees.
- The Palestine war continues by dint of the refugees only.
- There were no reports of the forcible repatriation of refugees.
- The problem of the housing of the refugees was the most imminent.
- But this plan was not designed as a panacea for the refugee crisis.
- Asylum seekers arriving by plane do not attract the same attention, nor what refugee groups would call the same paranoiac reaction.
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