refugee
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹɛfjʊdʒiː/, /ɹɛfjʊˈdʒiː/
refugee (plural refugees)
- 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.
- 2010, Brian Harrison, Finding a Role?: The United Kingdom 1970-1990 (page 2181)
- Why did the SDP dream eventually fade? Partly because it succeeded far better inside parliament than out. It might attract some inner-city Catholic traditionalist Labour refugees from Labour's left, but many of those were already gentrifying.
- 2010, Brian Harrison, Finding a Role?: The United Kingdom 1970-1990 (page 2181)
- French: réfugié, réfugiée
- German: Flüchtling, Flüchtlingin (obsolete), Asylant, Asylantin, Asylbewerber, Asylbewerberin
- Italian: rifugiato, rifugiata
- Portuguese: refugiado, refugiada
- Russian: бе́женец
- Spanish: refugiado, refugiada
- French: réfugié
- German: Flüchtling
- Portuguese: expatriado
- Russian: бе́женец
- Spanish: refugiado
- German: Flüchtling
- Portuguese: desabrigado
- Russian: бе́женец
- Spanish: refugiado
- German: Flüchtling
- Portuguese: asilado
- Russian: бе́женец
refugee (refugees, present participle refugeeing; past and past participle refugeed)
- (transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.
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