DP

Examples

• All

• Such a view had earlier helped to prompt the decision to take part in the relocation of DPs and former allies.

  Academic text (1991)

• By 1952, over 165,000 DPs, mostly Baits and other Eastern Europeans, had arrived.

  Academic text (1991)

• I couldn't sign the documents to sponsor them because I was not a citizen, but churches were sponsoring people, DP's they called them, and this woman, my landlady, belonged to a big church.

  Fiction book (2000)

• In suburban Canada, whiteness is the only signifier of selfhood, with all possible alternatives considered as "other," and labelled as "DPs": "DPs meant Displaced Persons."

  Academic text (2005)

• After the war, many DP camps were established to shelter those who had lost their homes.

• The organization provides food and medical aid to DPs seeking assistance after being uprooted by conflict.

• Thousands of DP s struggled to rebuild their lives in foreign countries after escaping persecution.

Synonyms

R

refugee

vsDP

543 3.5

A person who must leave their country to escape war, danger, or disaster

may include people forced to leave home without crossing national borders

E

exile

vsDP

87 4.9

A person who lives away from their home country, often for political or personal reasons

applies only when people are forced to leave, not when they choose to live abroad

D

displaced person

vsDP

10 5.3

A person forced to leave their home or country because it is not safe

is the same meaning but often used as a short form or label

D

deportee

vsDP

4 7.2

A person who is forced to leave a country and sent back to their home country

refers instead to people pushed out by war or persecution, not legal removal

E

expellee

vsDP

• Formal

8.4

A person forced to leave their country, often for political or legal reasons

is mainly used for those displaced by war or persecution rather than legal expulsion

Antonyms

S

settled

2.7

Living in one place and not moving around

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology