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Displaced Person

Definition: Displaced Person

Displaced Person

Noun

1. A person forced to flee from home or country.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Displaced Person

Synonym: stateless person (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Displaced person

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A displaced person describes one removed from his or her native country as a prisoner or a slave laborer.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Displaced person."

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Crosswords: Displaced Person

English words defined with "displaced person": anachronismtransference. (references)

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Modern Usage: Displaced Person

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Displaced Person (1985)

The Displaced Person (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Displaced Person

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Thailand

The Government and the UNHCR do not extend displaced person status to the large number of members of the Shan ethnic minority who have crossed the border but who have not requested refugee status. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

Although the army in some instances took steps to convert Tamil militia groups into regular army units, military oversight of these groups remained inadequate, and complaints about them continued, especially in Batticaloa and in transit camps for internally displaced person (IDP's) in Vavuniya. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Displaced Person

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

displaced person

11

internally displaced person

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Displaced Person

Language Translations for "displaced person"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

refugjat (refugee), i pastrehë (homeless, houseless, unsheltered). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

бежанец (fugitive, refugee). (various references)

   

Czech

  

bezdomovec (dosser, homeless, stray). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hontalan személy. (various references)

   

Manx

  

fer gyn cheer. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

flyktning (fugitive). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isplacedday ersonpay

   

Portuguese

  

substituir (existence, placebo, relay, relieve, renew, replace, shift, stand in for, substitute, supersede, supplant, take the place of). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

перемещенное лицо. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

raseljeno lice. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

persona desplazada. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

işgal ettiği ülkelerden almanyaya gönderilen işçi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Displaced Person

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-p-p-r-s-s"

-3 letters: narcolepsies, personalised, precessional.

-4 letters: cordialness, personalise, predisposed, recessional, scaloppines, scorpaenids, secondaries, sniperscope.

-5 letters: appendices, arecolines, considered, copperases, dapperness, deaconries, deadliness, depression, desperados, despoilers, dispeopled, dispeoples, displeased, leopardess, necropsied, necropsies, paperiness, percalines, periscopes, piperonals, placidness, porcelains, precession, predispose, prescinded, redisposed, replicases, saddleries, saddlesore, sandpipers, scaloppine, scorpaenid, splendider.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Displaced Person


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 70 6C 61 63 65 64      50 65 72 73 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01101100 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#112 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#100 &#32 &#80 &#101 &#114 &#115 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0070 006C 0061 0063 0065 0064      0050 0065 0072 0073 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3875858278676971702507184858180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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