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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
refugee
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flood of refugees
▪ The UN appealed for help with the flood of refugees crossing the border.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
genuine
▪ Of the 64,000 people in the Hong Kong camps, only 5,000 had so far been accepted as genuine refugees.
▪ It is necessary to provide a proper asylum law to make sure that genuine refugees can be dealt with speedily and adequately.
▪ What we must do is to distinguish between bogus and genuine refugees.
▪ We must start to define where we expect genuine refugees to come from.
▪ According to refugee experts, existing procedures failed to identify and protect genuine refugees.
▪ It will prevent the misuse of asylum procedures while protecting the position of genuine refugees.
▪ The couple have since been accepted as genuine refugees and granted permission to stay in Britain indefinitely.
kurdish
▪ The United Kingdom on Dec. 31 announced that it would provide a further £1,000,000 in aid to Kurdish refugees.
▪ After the Gulf war, thousands of Kurdish refugees fled to the mountains.
political
▪ The word is still used today, of course, to describe something desirable to which political refugees are entitled.
▪ Her father is a political refugee.
▪ In other words, the definition of political refugee and economic mi grant became interchangeable.
▪ The United States granted her request to become a political refugee.
▪ Nizan stuck to his principles, but after 1939 he became a political refugee.
▪ The economic migrant is also the political refugee.
▪ But a new category of political refugee was emerging in the newly independent states of the ex-colonies.
young
▪ Though intended primarily for adults, the advice held good for young refugees.
▪ Jean Hoare virtually handed over her Bloomsbury flat to young refugees.
▪ Many of the young refugees left their homes and families 4 years ago.
▪ But there were exceptions. 2 of the youngest were refugees from Bosnia.
▪ Fortunately for the young refugees, there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking.
▪ Norbert and Alfred are representative of the thirty-six young refugees held in mental hospitals in 1945.
■ NOUN
camp
▪ He returned to the refugee camp where his family has lived since 1948.
▪ Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced, unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings.
▪ Our neighborhood looked like a refugee camp, bursting its seams.
▪ We wanted compensation for what a half-century in refugee camps has done to their lives.
▪ Hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps and towns near the fighting were scattered and set adrift.
▪ In the Gaza refugee camp of Rafah soldiers shot dead 11-year-old Mohammad Jarbou.
▪ As a way of encouraging them to return, food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer.
child
▪ Anyone with a foreign accent, including refugee children, were labelled as potential saboteurs.
▪ The proceeds will go towards her school for refugee children.
▪ They believe refugee children deserve a season of peace and goodwill.
▪ By then, the critical decision had been taken to restrict the flow of refugee children into Britain.
▪ The responsibilities of the regional and area committees increased in line with the numbers of refugee children needing care.
▪ Refugee children under the age of sixteen were liable to be evacuated; refugee children over sixteen risked being interned.
▪ Youth Allyah was opposed to the very principle of fostering refugee children.
▪ Many former refugee children report never having seen a Bloomsbury House representative.
crisis
▪ Famine and refugee crisis On Jan. 12 Mogadishu's water supply failed after the looting of diesel fuel from the pumping station.
▪ Pensioners already fighting to keep their heads above water are being asked to pay extra council tax to fund the refugee crisis.
population
▪ The year also witnessed the suspension of some special programmes, most notably infant and adult education among refugee populations.
▪ The capacity of the occupied territories to absorb part or all of the refugee population will be considered in chapter 9.
problem
▪ Forget the junta's involvement in heroin production and trafficking, and the humanitarian and refugee problems resulting from its tyranny.
▪ There were also fears of a growing refugee problem.
▪ Solutions seem impossible-but there can be some hope if we start dealing with the refugee problem at the gates.
status
▪ Najera said Rawa's family has applied for refugee status but no decision has been made.
▪ Ahmed Katangole was due to be deported, the Home Office had refused him refugee status.
▪ We will provide a fair and expeditious system for examining claims for refugee status.
▪ I was fortunate to be granted full refugee status in under a year, this entitled me to bring my family here.
▪ Apparently white farmers are to be offered immediate refugee status, no questions asked.
▪ Mr. Young How many of the boat people have been granted refugee status?
▪ As numbers rise, a decreasing proportion are found to qualify for refugee status.
▪ Shortly after my interview, Delhi announced that the Karmapa had been granted refugee status.
■ VERB
accept
▪ Of the 64,000 people in the Hong Kong camps, only 5,000 had so far been accepted as genuine refugees.
▪ The Government has said it will accept around 4,000 refugees for six months.
▪ The couple have since been accepted as genuine refugees and granted permission to stay in Britain indefinitely.
bring
▪ Mr Smith, a Northampton headmaster, has been involved in bringing hundreds of refugees to Britain from the Yugoslav war zone.
▪ Now the process was open to any nonprofit agency that wanted to bring refugees into the United States.
▪ Now the headmaster who brought them here wants to return to the war zone to bring out more refugees.
▪ Meanwhile, Oxfam has launched a double-edged appeal to bring aid to refugees in countries ripped apart by fighting.
flee
▪ Many magistrates and law enforcement officials were either killed or fled as refugees.
help
▪ Many others had reason to be grateful to the Quakers for refusing to give up their mission to help refugees.
▪ A navy warship was also on its way to the area to help evacuate refugees.
▪ On a far more extensive scale than we have done hitherto, we must help refugees in their own and neighbouring countries.
▪ Such publicity does not necessarily help refugees.
▪ The borough willingly assumes its responsibilities to help and cope with refugees.
▪ We hope to help refugees from any war, any country.
▪ Much more could be done to help assimilate our refugees - for example, help with schooling and specialist support.
live
▪ Hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps and towns near the fighting were scattered and set adrift.
▪ Do your readers know what it is like to live in a refugee camp?
return
▪ Many returning refugees have found themselves dispossessed once more, made refugees in their own land.
▪ He returned to the refugee camp where his family has lived since 1948.
▪ They are making their pitch on radio stations, and are videotaping interviews with returning refugees and playing them in the camps.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a refugee camp
▪ Britain has traditionally been a safe haven for political refugees.
▪ Most of the refugees from the former war zone have now been sent back.
▪ The government has been unable to provide enough tents for all the refugees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And is it reasonable to expect the refugees to go back?
▪ But for its refugees, Lothian and its southlands are dead.
▪ But it is hard to remain morally comfortable when turning back refugees.
▪ It all left yesterday's would-be refugees furious at the latest delay in an evacuation that has taken two months to negotiate.
▪ Mandela mustered encouragement for the refugees, who are mostly Hutu.
▪ So far, the most desperate of measures has not been taken, perhaps because would-be refugees have nowhere to run.
▪ Villagers from El Barillo ended up in a church-run refugee camp in Calle Real.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refugee

Refugee \Ref`u*gee"\ (r?f`?*j?"), n. [F. r['e]fugi['e], fr. se r['e]fugier to take refuge. See Refuge, n.]

  1. One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.

  2. Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
refugee

1680s, from French refugié, noun use of past participle of refugier "to take shelter, protect," from Old French refuge (see refuge). First applied to French Huguenots who migrated after the revocation (1685) of the Edict of Nantes. The word meant "one seeking asylum," till 1914, when it evolved to mean "one fleeing home" (first applied in this sense to civilians in Flanders heading west to escape fighting in World War I). In Australian slang from World War II, reffo.

Wiktionary
refugee

n. 1 A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, i.e., a person seeking a political asylum. 2 A person seeking refuge in a foreign country due to poverty and no prospect of overcoming said poverty in his home country, i.e., a person seeking an economic asylum. 3 A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster. 4 A person formally granted a political or economic asylum by a country other than his home country. vb. (context transitive US historical English) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.

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WordNet
refugee

n. an exile who flees for safety

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Wikipedia
Refugee

A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely (for more detail see legal definition). Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by the contracting state or the UNHCR if they formally make a claim for asylum.

The term refugee is often used to include displaced persons who may fall outside the legal definition in the 1951 Refugee Convention, either because they have left their home countries because of war and not because of a fear of persecution, or because they have been forced to migrate within their home countries. The term is also commonly used as a synonym for displaced person, causing confusion between the general descriptive class of anyone who was forced to leave their home and the subgroup of legally defined refugees who enjoy specified international legal protection.

The lead international agency coordinating refugee protection is the United Nations Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In 2006, there were 8.4 million UNHCR registered refugees worldwide, which was the lowest number since 1980. The UNHCR reports that at the end of 2015, there were 21.3 million refugees worldwide (16.1 million under UNHCR's mandate, plus 5.2 million Palestinian refugees under UNRWA's mandate). 1.8 million were newly displaced refugees. Among them, Syrian refugees were the largest refugee group in 2015 at 4.9 million. In 2014, Syrians had overtaken Afghan refugees, who had been the largest refugee group for three decades. The countries hosting the largest number of refugees according to UNHCR are Turkey (2.5 million), Pakistan (1.6 million), Lebanon (1.1 million) and Iran (1 million). In 2015, the total number of displaced people worldwide, including refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons, was at its highest level on record.

Research has found that refugees have historically tended to flee to nearby countries with ethnic kin populations and a history of accepting other co-ethnic refugees. The religious, sectarian and denominational affiliation has been an important feature of debate in refugee-hosting nations.

Refugee (disambiguation)

A refugee is a person who has left their home country under threat of their life, and cannot or will not return there.

Refugee or Refugees may also refer to:

Refugee (band)

Refugee were a progressive rock band formed in 1973 that consisted of vocalist and bassist Lee Jackson, drummer Brian Davison and keyboardist Patrick Moraz. They released one album, Refugee (1974) before the group dissolved after Moraz left the group in August 1974 to join Yes.

Refugee (Bad4Good album)

Refugee is the only album by Bad4Good, a quartet of teenagers that included Brooks Wackerman and Danny Cooksey, released in August 1992 by Interscope Records. The album was produced by Steve Vai. It is currently out of print.

Refugee (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song)

"Refugee" is a song recorded by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was released in January 1980 as the second single from their album Damn the Torpedoes. It peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1980. The song is in compound AABA form.

Refugee (2006 film)

Refugee is a 2006 Bengali film directed by Haranath Chakraborty and produced by Shree Venkatesh Films under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films. The film features actors Prosenjit Chatterjee and Rambha in the lead roles and prominent refugee from Bangladesh, Rishabh Prasad in the role of the lead couples' servant. Music of the film has been composed by Jeet Ganguly. The film was a remake of Telugu film Chatrapathi.

Refugee (Ross Mintzer Song)

"Refugee" is a song by American musician Ross Mintzer, released as a single in 2015. Since its release, "Refugee" has been played 5.8 million times on the audio distribution platform SoundCloud.

Refugee (2000 film)

Refugee is a 2000 Indian film written and directed by J. P. Dutta. It marked the debuts of Abhishek Bachchan, son of popular actor Amitabh Bachchan, and Kareena Kapoor, the younger sister of actress Karisma Kapoor. The film also starred Jackie Shroff, Sunil Shetty and Anupam Kher. Refugee performed moderately well at the box office and was the fifth highest grossing film of that year.

It is the story of an unnamed Indian Muslim, who helps illegal refugees from India and Pakistan cross the border through the Great Rann of Kutch. The film is attributed to have been inspired by the short story "Love Across the Salt Desert" by Keki N. Daruwalla.

Refugee (Refugee album)

Refugee is the only studio album from the progressive rock band Refugee, released in March 1974 on Charisma Records. It was re-released under the TimeWave label on 27 June 2006. A live album Refugee Live in Concert. Newcastle City Hall 1974 was issued in 2007, on Voiceprint Records, containing two songs from the era of Lee Jackson and Brian Davison's earlier band The Nice, "The Diamond Hard Blue Apples of the Moon" and the Bob Dylan song " She Belongs to Me", as well as songs from this album.

The title of the track "Ritt Mickley" originated from Moraz's strong French Swiss accent when he asked other band members to play the track again but more rhythmically.

Refugee (Jim Kerr song)

"Refugee" is the first track released from Simple Minds founding member and vocalist Jim Kerr's first solo album Lostboy! AKA Jim Kerr in early 2010, although " Shadowland" was the first official single release from the project. According to Jim Kerr the track was written three years earlier but never had been properly arranged before producer Jez Coad started to work on the song. A short, instrumental edit of the first opening bars could be heard on the first incarnation of the Lostboy! AKA website, the same snippet was also being used by Sky Sports as the theme for their live broadcast of the Scotland football game on March 4, 2010. The album version of the track "Refugee" was exclusively premiered on Billy Sloan's radio show of the March 7, 2010, along with an exclusive remix by Simon Hayward. Both of these tracks were then added to the Lostboy! AKA YouTube Channel. A week later (March 16t, 2010), the full album version of "Refugee" was made available as a download from the initial www.lostboyaka.com website as a "thank you" to fans.

On April 13, 2010 "Refugee" was released as the lead track of the Welcome Gift 1 free download twin pack which was released as part of the main website launch of www.lostboyaka.com. Besides the previously released album version of "Refugee", the twin pack included the track "What Goes On" (Scary Monsters Mix), which was exclusive to this release. "What Goes On" is a cover of a Velvet Underground track, written by Lou Reed. The package also included the artwork and a text file requesting that the tracks not be uploaded to any other site.

"Refugee" was also included as the third track on the " Shadowland" promo single in its album version form, contrary to the new single mixes of the title track. The same tracks as on the "Shadoland" promo was on the download single release of "Shadowland", with the album version of "Refugee" included.

An additional exclusive remix of the song called Atmoxic Remix was only available as a download with the album from iTunes. It was a stripped down basic version, and sounded more like the original demo than the final studio track.

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Usage examples of "refugee".

Two of the Land aircraft were slanting down towards the Bassin du Sud refugees and the Santander party.

Plum and cherry trees flowered on the banks and where there would normally be gay parties out under the boughs to observe the blossoming, frightened refugees streamed south instead.

They had passed a camp of refugees on the Brous Road, an old woman wakening to tell them the raiders had caught up with them earlier and stolen everything of value, as well as two young girls and their mother.

She was an Afghan refugee who had traded her stifling burqa for a Kevlar vest and combat gear.

From the way Butyr said it, he half expected to see a troop of smartly dressed fighters, instead of such a weary crowd of refugees.

Tom Brandt, a recent refugee from our little corner of engineering hell, joined Melissa, Manish and myself at an out of the way table in the company cafeteria.

He went to lodge at an inn, and soon received visits from the Marchese di Vico Napoletano, Pietro Martire Vermigli, and other refugees, who welcomed him with affection, inquiring whether he intended to embrace the religion of Calvin, to which Bruno replied that he did not intend to make profession of that religion, as he did not know of what kind it was, and he only desired to live in Geneva in freedom.

But in 1920 the road to Menin slowly re-emerged, followed by the shanties of the first returning refugees.

And the centuries-old division between India and Pakistan like a severed limb the refugees breaking down all attempts at organization finally the water-table under the city hopelessly poisoned by sewage mass eruptions of disease scampering mesolithic men crouching in their cave exchanging illnesses viruses use mankind as walking cities.

These would be staging points for the Molt refugees, the females and the prepubescent males driven from what should have been the inviolable core of the theme holdings.

Some slow, motorless vessels were said to be crewed entirely by khepri born at sea, all the original refugees having died during the interminable crossing.

William Perl is of the strong conviction that the Darien proposal was designed to ensnare the WZO into a situation whereby the trickle of refugees would be stopped by the Nazis.

The attendants of the Ancestors met the refugees at predesignated places to guide them to the caves.

Admiral Wuht provided the refugees some cover, even as the orbital cities retooled for military production.

Selonian refugees, leaving Corellia while they still were considered first-class citizens, mingled with dockworkers of half a dozen other species retooling the civilian shipyards for military use.