refugee camp
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈrɛfjuˌdʒi kæmp/
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campo de refugiados
- Some of the students had been raised in refugee camps.
- live in refugee camps
- resettled from refugee camps
- refugee camps in other countries
She's served in a Syrian refugee camp in Athens.
- She's served in a Syrian refugee camp in Athens.
- But yet she lived in the refugee camp, which it was just a sprawl of huts.
- We had to do what we had to do to survive in these refugee camps during the war.
- I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood's biggest stage.
- How does it make you feel, though, as an Afghan whose countrymen and women are presently living in limbo and refugee camps in Pakistan?
- They're leading in many refugee camps and disaster areas, helping, serving.
- I also met a person who's in charge of a refugee camp who was shopping, IDF soldier.
- The Myanmar is killing the Rohingya, millions of people were sent in refugee camps in in Sudan.
- So like they're doing them right now in the refugee camps in that are in Jordan and people coming out of Syria into Jordan.
Examples
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There are ten official refugee camps in Syria today and three more unofficial ones.
Academic text (2013) -
We had to do what we had to do to survive in these refugee camps during the war.
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Dad, how far is it to the refugee camp?
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What about everyone waiting in the refugee camp?
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The French took us to a refugee camp in Egypt.
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Many still live in refugee camps.
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This is Kutupalong, the largest refugee camp in the world.
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I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood's biggest stage.
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People in IDP or refugee camps are living in crowded conditions with poor environmental and household conditions.
Academic text (2015) -
After fleeing their country, many families found safety in a refugee camp where they received food and shelter.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where people stay in tents or simple buildings for a short time
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1.1
A building that gives temporary housing and protection for homeless people
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6.0
A place where people live temporarily in tents outdoors
Antonyms
How Temporary
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'refugee camp' is directly compositional: 'refugee' (people fleeing war or persecution) + 'camp' (a temporary site of shelters) yields 'a camp for refugees' with no idiomatic shift. This follows a common noun+noun pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Refugee camp comes from the image of people called refugees—who need 'refuge' or 'safety'—living together in a temporary camp of tents and shelters after they leave their homes because of war or danger. So, a refugee camp is a place where people forced to leave their country stay and get basic help.