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displaced person
noun
- a person driven or expelled from their homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. : DP, D.P.
displaced person
noun
- a person forced from his home or country, esp by war or revolution DP
Word History and Origins
Origin of displaced person1
Example Sentences
Some people who relocate to nearby areas may be counted as internally displaced persons, or IDPs, if they register with authorities, Williams explained.
Meanwhile in Gaza, 10 people in a school sheltering displaced persons were killed by an Israeli strike, Hamas said on Saturday.
On Friday evening, she arrived with her elderly parents, shaken, hungry and a bit lost, at a Kharkiv school that has been turned into a displaced persons’ reception center.
“Any blowup related to the issue of displaced persons will not be limited to Lebanon but will extend to Europe to become a regional and international crisis,” he said.
It also said a staff member named Amir Abu Aisha had been killed by Israeli gunfire, and that a displaced person had been wounded in the head.
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