evacuation
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4.1
- noun
- /ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃən/
:
evacuación
- Officials announced the evacuation of residents as the hurricane approached the coast.
- an evacuation order
- an evacuation plan
- an emergency evacuation
I was there for nine months in total in Afghanistan for three months of the evacuation.
- I was there for nine months in total in Afghanistan for three months of the evacuation.
- And then we do some other meetings along the way to facilitate our our evacuation to the border.
- So the first question is do you have emergency needs and this means during your evacuation or staying at your home during the disaster?
- And the conditional evacuation was always going to be troublesome no matter which way you put it.
- And there are plenty of crowds, especially around evacuation points where it's not difficult for a bomber just to walk in the middle of a, of a crowd.
- There's like noncombatant evacuation OPS at targeting.
Examples
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Evacuation orders were issued for Poliahu as well as the other outlying islands late yesterday.
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Evacuation procedures are now in progress.
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And the Black Forest fire was going on at that time, and the evacuation zone was right across the street from our house.
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Do you realize what this evacuation will cost the people of this city?
Fiction book (1998) -
The governor of Oregon this morning extended the evacuation zone another five miles.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Army and National Guard are supervising the evacuation.
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And this is about the evacuation of the Greek civilians when the Turkish army was just advancing on them.
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The NAACP began its internal debate after the evacuation was already underway.
Academic text (1995) -
CAIMAN: hundreds of thousands have jammed the streets in the largest evacuation in the history of the city.
Fiction book (1998) -
During the emergency drill, the evacuation of all students was completed within minutes.
Synonyms
45
7.2
Many people leaving a place at the same time, often to escape danger or bad conditions
13
7.1
The act of moving people away from danger in an emergency
1
8.3
A quick plan to leave a place because of danger
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
2
3.9
The transport of injured and sick people by plane or helicopter to a hospital
A rescue of many Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940 during World War II
How Complete
39
6.1
130
4.1
281
4.1
50
4.3
106
2.0
795
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word evacuation comes from the Latin root vac- meaning 'empty', as in vacant or vacuum. So an evacuation is the act of 'emptying' a place, which is why it means moving people out to a safer area.