refugee
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- noun
- /ˌrɛfjuˈdʒi/
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refugiado
- Thousands of angry refugees are demanding to be let back into the city.
- refugee camp
- refugee status
- refugees from war
That any should be turned into refugees, as we were.
- That any should be turned into refugees, as we were.
- He works locally with refugee survivors from around the world.
- Let's make sure that the gay refugees and asylum seekers have plenty of rights.
- We're just told, you know, OK, we're going to send the refugees off to Rwanda.
- One of the big issues right now what to do with the refugees from Gaza.
- So these are refugees, people who've lost their villages, lost their homes.
- And we would do all sorts of welcome refugee events.
- So they could bring more Syrian refugees in this country now.
- In the course of this two stage war in a vast Palestinian refugee problem occurred.
- So just why is the refugee question so urgent today?
- The main controversy about the refugee problem is what caused it.
- My parents met and I was born on a refugee camp in Somalia.
- We might think of refugees as being in both cases, right?
Examples
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When working with older refugees, mental health clinicians should pay special attention to grief and identity issues.
Academic text (2011) -
I must find food for these new refugees.
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Yet little is known about the needs of this particular refugee population.
Academic text (2011) -
His father was a refugee.
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So just why is the refugee question so urgent today?
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Actually, I'm gonna be working in a refugee camp.
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Six years ago, two refugees figured it out.
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The UK has no plan to help Syrian refugees who have made it.
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A total of 1,582 refugee children arrived in Massachusetts during the study period.
Academic text (2011) -
After fleeing their war-torn country, many families have become refugees seeking safety in neighboring nations.
Synonyms
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5.3
A person forced to leave their home or country because it is not safe
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7.5
A person forced to leave their home because of war or danger
A person forced to leave their country, often for political or legal reasons
Compounds
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3.5
A place that gives temporary shelter and help to people forced to leave their country because of war
How Voluntary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Refugee comes from refuge, which means 'a safe place', plus -ee, meaning 'one who'. So a refugee is someone who has 'fled to safety' because of war, danger, or disaster.