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EVACUEES

"EVACUEES" is a plural of: evacuee.


Specialty Definition: EVACUEES

DomainDefinition

Military

Resident or transient persons who have been ordered or authorized to move by competent authorities, and whose movement and accommodation are planned, organized and controlled by such authorities. (references)

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

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Modern Usage: EVACUEES

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Movie/TV Titles

The Evacuees (1975)

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

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Photo Album: EVACUEES

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Parker, Ariz. Apr. 1942. constructing buildings for Japanese-American evacuees at the War relocation authority center on the Colorado River Indian Reservation. Credit: Library of Congress.

Santa Anita reception center, Arcadia, Calif., Apr. 1942--Evacuees of Japanese ancestry passing into the dining hall for lunch where more than 2,000 meals are served in less than an hour--These evacuees will be transferred later to War relocation centers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Arcadia, Calif. April 1942--All baggage is inspected before newcomers enter the Santa Anita Park assembly center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Credit: Library of Congress.

Manzanar, Calif., May 1942--Girls at the ice cream bar in the community store of the War relocation authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration of the war Foreground, left to right, Florence Yamaguchi, Nancy Kawashimi, Flo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry at an assembly center in Salinas,Calif., prior to transfer to a War Relocation Authority center. Credit: Library of Congress.

Los Angeles (Calif.) Evacuation -- Caravan of evacuees leaving Mariposa Street Control Station for Santa Anita Assembly Center, April 28, 1942. Credit: Library of Congress.

Long Beach (Calif.) Evacuation -- Young evacuees gayly wave goodbye to friends. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tanforan (Calif.) Assembly Center -- Evacuees who were citizens retained right to vote--Photo shows City Clerk Ralph E. Woodman of San Bruno, California, municipality nearest to Center, accepting absentee ballots for State election from evacuees. Credit: Library of Congress.

Puyallup (Wash.) Assembly Center --arriving evacuees register for housing and mess assignments / Tacoma News Tribune photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pomona (Calif.) Assembly Center - evacuees pass through outer gate of center toward buses awaiting to take them to relocation center. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: EVACUEES

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Civil Liberties

Turkey

Only a fraction of the total number of evacuees has returned. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: EVACUEES

"EVACUEES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EVACUEES" is used about 113 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 (plural)100%11330,464

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EVACUEES

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

evacuees

17

world war 2 evacuees

8

evacuees two war world

2

2 evacuees in war world

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

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Modern Translation: EVACUEES

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

Finnish

  

siirtotyöläisetväki (displaced population). (various references)

   

German

  

Evakuierten. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kitelepített (expellee), kiûrített személyek. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

避難民 (refugees). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひな"み" (refugees). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evacueesay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

evakuisani (evacuee). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: EVACUEES

Misspellings

"EVACUEES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: evacu, evacuues, ulvaceus. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: EVACUEES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: evacuee.

-3 letters: cause, caves, cease, eaves, sauce, suave, uveas.

-4 letters: aces, aves, case, cave, cees, cues, ease, eave, ecus, eves, save, uvea, vacs, vase, vaus, vees.

-5 letters: ace, ave, cee, cue, eau, ecu, eve, sac, sae, sau, sea, sec, see, sue, use, vac, vas, vau, vee.

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

+4 letters: equivalences, overeducates.

 

+5 letters: equivalencies, overspeculate, superachiever, underachieves, unserviceable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EVACUEES


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

45 56 41 43 55 45 45 53

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 01010110 01000001 01000011 01010101 01000101 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#86 &#65 &#67 &#85 &#69 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0056 0041 0043 0055 0045 0045 0053

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

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

3956353755393953

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INDEX

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


  

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