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Evacuee

Definition: Evacuee

Evacuee

Noun

1. A person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place.

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

Specialty Definitions: Evacuee

DomainDefinitions

Public Administration

Person evacuated or temporarily removed from a place that constitutes a threat to his security or health, to a place of safety and refuge. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Commercial Usage: Evacuee

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Evacuee (reference)

  • An Evacuee for America (reference)

  • Pavements to Ploughed Fields: An Evacuee on a Norfolk Farm 1939-1948 [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • The evacuee (reference)

  • U.S. War Relocation Authority: Wartime Handling of Evacuee Property (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Evacuee

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Aspen overlook on Mount Lemmon in the Coronado National Forest the first day of evacuee reentry following the Bullock Fire.Credit: Unknown.

San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - Young evacuee sits atop pile of luggage on evacuation day, April 6, 1942, while soldier stands by.Credit: Library of Congress.

Stockton (Calif.) Assembly Center--young Japanese evacuee reads bulletin board on which is posted Civilian Restrictive Order No. 1 / Signal Corps photo.Credit: Library of Congress.

Teheran, Iran. Women making their own clothing at a Polish evacuee camp operated by the Red Cross.Credit: Library of Congress.

Teheran, Iran. Women making their own clothing at a Polish evacuee camp operated by the Red Cross.Credit: Library of Congress.

Teheran, Iran. Tiny Pole sitting in the dormitory step of a United States Red Cross evacuee camp.Credit: Library of Congress.

Teheran, Iran. Polish evacuee children playing in the dormitory courtyard at a camp operated by the Red Cross.Credit: Library of Congress.

Teheran, Iran. Women doing their laundry in a Polish evacuee camp operated by the Red Cross.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Evacuee

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

Hindus and Sikhs, because of population shifts that occurred between India and Pakistan after partition, come under the auspices of the Evacuee Property Board, which is located in Lahore and is empowered to settle disputes regarding Hindu and Sikh property. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Evacuee

"Evacuee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Evacuee" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3756,631

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Evacuee

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

  evacuee

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Evacuee

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

Albanian

  

i shpërngulur, i larguar (devious, gone, runaway, wide). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏المجلى. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

евакуиран. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

被后送的人员. (various references)

   

Czech

  

evakuovaná osoba. (various references)

   

Danish

  

evakuent. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

evacuee, evacué. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فراری (Deserter, Elusive, Escapee, Refugee, Runaway), مهاجر (Colonist, Emigrant, Immigrant, Income, Migrant, Pilgrim, Refugee). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

evakuoitu. (various references)

   

French

  

évacué (evacuated). (various references)

   

German

  

Evakuierter, Umsiedler (migrant, resettler). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μετακινούμενοσ από επικίνδυνη θέση, εκκενούμενοσ από επικίνδυνη θέση. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מפו ". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kitelepített személy (deportee), evakuált. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pengungsi (refugee). (various references)

   

Italian

  

evacuato (vacated). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

避難者 , 疎開者 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そかいしゃ, ひな"しゃ. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

후송환자. (various references)

   

Manx

  

paitchey goit magh, fer goit magh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evacueeay

   

Portuguese

  

evacuado, retirada (fallback, pullout, recession, removal, remove, retire, retreat, withdrawal). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

evacuat, persoanã evacuatã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

эвакуируемый, эвакуированный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

evakuisani (evacuees). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

evacuado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

evakuerad. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผู้อพยพ (immigrant, migrant, migrator). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

olağanüstü bölgeyi tahliye eden kimse, felâket bölgesinden nakledilen kimse. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

евакуйований. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người tản cư, người sơ tán. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Evacuee

Derivations

Words beginning with "evacuee": evacuees. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Evacuee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: evace, evacu, evacute, evacuues, evalue. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Evacuee"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "evacuee" (pronounced iva"kyuwē or ēva"kyuwē)
3-y uw ēsinewy.
3-y uw ēsinewy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Evacuee

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-u-v"

-3 letters: cave, eave, uvea.

-4 letters: ace, ave, cee, cue, eau, ecu, eve, vac, vau, vee.

-5 letters: ae.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-u-v"
 

+1 letter: evacuees.

 

+4 letters: equivalence, overeducate, reeducative.

 

+5 letters: equivalences, overeducated, overeducates, recuperative, underachieve.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Evacuee


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

45 76 61 63 75 65 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    ...-    .-    -.-.    ..-    .    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000101 01110110 01100001 01100011 01110101 01100101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#118 &#97 &#99 &#117 &#101 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0076 0061 0063 0075 0065 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

39886769877171

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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