displaced

[ dis-pleyst ]

adjective

1. lacking a home, country, etc.
2. moved or put out of the usual or proper place.

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. Usually the displaced. persons who lack a home, as through political exile, destruction of their previous shelter, or lack of financial resources:

   After the earthquake, the displaced were temporarily housed in armories.

Other Words From

• un·dis·placed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of displaced¹

First recorded in 1565–75; displace + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Multiple government agencies displaced and evicted Section 14 residents over at least five major abatement campaigns between 1936 and 1965, with the city’s direct involvement beginning in 1948, according to the historical study.

From Los Angeles Times

Worldwide, the number of displaced people has been climbing alongside what appears to be the rising severity of disasters, and research suggests that by later this century as much as one-third of civilization — billions of people — could be facing the kind of heat and drought that had prohibited most human settlement for thousands of years.

From Salon

HRW’s report - based on interviews with displaced Palestinians, analysis of Israeli evacuation orders, satellite imagery showing destruction of buildings, and videos and photos of strikes - concludes that there is no plausible imperative military reason to justify the displacement of nearly all of Gaza’s population and that the other conditions for it be lawful have also not been met.

From BBC

The Israeli military has denied that it is seeking to create permanent buffer zones and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar recently said that displaced people from northern Gaza would be allowed to return home at the end of the war.

From BBC

The report was published as Israeli forces continued a ground offensive in northern Gaza that has displaced up to 130,000 people over the past five weeks.

From BBC