Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. a refugee, especially of war or of forced migration
WordNet
n. a person forced to flee from home or country [syn: DP, stateless person]
Wikipedia
A displaced person (sometimes abbreviated DP) is a person who has been forced to leave his or her home or place of habitual residence, a phenomenon known as forced migration.
According to the UNHCR, there were 59.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide at the end of 2014, the highest level since World War II: 19.5 million were refugees, 1.8 million asylum seekers and 38.2 million internally displaced persons.
Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy Award-winning episode of American anthology television series American Playhouse, based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the Welcome to the Monkey House collection. The title of the story in that collection was D.P.
As in many other Vonnegut works, the story is framed by World War II. In it a black German orphan looking for his father finds instead a black U.S. service member (played by Stan Shaw). The show won an Emmy for "Outstanding Children's program" for its producers, including Barry Levinson.
Usage examples of "displaced person".
She didn't sleep at night or when she did she dreamed about the Displaced Person.
Sebastian Birch: displaced person after the Great War, with obsessive interest in outer planet cloud systems.
Janeed Jannex: displaced person after the Great War, and would-be Outer System colonist.
We had traveled from the Displaced Person Camp in Landsberg, Germany to Bramen, a journey of more than 450 kilometers.
It included the occasional displaced person, for whom assistance could be both immediate and effectual, and also the occasional tormented eccentric for whom some form of mediation with the world was necessary, though the attempt was always made to ease the pain without interfering with creativity.
He came to Australia three years ago, as a displaced person, and he was sent for his two years to work upon the railway, here in Banbury.
He was beginning to feel the basic, gnawing tragedy of the wartime displaced person, the loss of roots.
Ripped from everything that was familiar to it and put down in circumstances of almost complete isolation--a true Displaced Person.
Ripped from everything that was familiar to it and put down in circumstances of almost complete isolation-a true Displaced Person.
It was Fyx's illusion of the displaced person, a minor illusion to Fyx, but the centerpiece for any lesser magician's repertory.
She asked for a cure, but the port authorities already had her scheduled for resettlement as a displaced person.
Of being a permanently displaced person in a stainless-steel society.
Of being a permanently displaced person in a stainlesssteel society.
I am, like Odysseus, a displaced person, living in one reality, while inside being part of another.