REFUGEES

"REFUGEES" is a plural of: refugee.

Date "REFUGEES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Military

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

Synonym: REFUGEES

Crosswords: REFUGEES

It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats, and travelers from a hundred worlds. (Babylon 5: The Gathering; writing credit: J. Michael Straczynski)

You commented on Nazi methods, foul fighting, bombing refugees, machine-gunning hospitals, lifeboats, lightships, bailed-out pilots, by saying that you despised them, that you would be ashamed to fight on their side and that you would sooner accept defeat than victory if it could only be won by those methods. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; writing credit: Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger)

I'm sure you must be late for something - volunteering at the Henry Street Settlement, or rolling bandages for Bosnian Refugees. (You've Got Mail; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

Refugees (1915)

Cuban Refugees Waiting for Rations (1898)

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

Books

• Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America (reference)

• Immigrants & Refugees : Create Your New Life in America (reference)

• On Immigration and Refugees (Thinking in Action) (reference)

• Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut (reference)

• Satisfaction in the Land of Opportunity: Answers for U.S. Immigrants and Refugees (Pioneer Living Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Refugees (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Refugees of the Heart (reference)

• Waikiki Beach Refugees (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Refugees of Southeast Asia. Credit: CDC.

Flooding along the Mississippi River Refugees from the flood maintain their livestock on the top of a levee. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The great Mississippi River flood of 1927 Tent camp of refugees on river levee. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"South China Sea . . . Crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship U.S.S. Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees aboard from a small craft. The refugees will be transferred later by mechanized landing craft (LCM) to the freighter Transcolorado." By JO1 Mike McGougan, April 3, 1975. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1947-.

View in El Caney, Refugees From Santiago, filling the Plaza, July 5, 98. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Group of Refugees From Santiago at Firmeza. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A Vietnamese mother and baby are helped down the gangway of USS Estes (AGC-12), as refugees arrive at Saigon after being evacuated from the North. Credit: NAVY.

Crewmen holding evacuated children, as refugees are embarked at Bilboa, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War, August 1936. These men have been identified as (from left to right): Lloyd A. Payne (possibly), Chief Petty Officers Fuchs, and Slajus. Note dog. Credit: NAVY.

Starving refugees from Santiago congregating at El Caney. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tibetan refugees in India. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

One of these refugees found herself again almost in her own home.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Risk groups include general population (for epidemics), infants and young children (for endemic disease), refugees, household contacts of case patients, military personnel, college freshmen (who live in dormitories), and people exposed to active and passive tobacco smoke. (references)

Business

Most states subsequently extended the temporary protection status of refugees in this category. (references)

Despite tightening of asylum laws, Germany remains a prime destination for political and economic refugees from much of the Third World. (references)

Children

Bhutan

Exile groups claim that Nepalese students scoring highly on national exams are not always given the same advantages as other students (such as the chance to study abroad at government expense), particularly if they are related to prominent dissidents or refugees. (references)

Civil Liberties

Peru

The status of refugees is reviewed annually. (references)

Lebanon

Most non-Lebanese refugees are Palestinians. (references)

Economic History

Slovenia

Slovenia took in over 4,100 Kosovar refugees during the crisis. (references)

Bangladesh

As of 2000, about 22,000 refugees remain in camps in southern Bangladesh. (references)

Guinea

Population (1996 census): 7.2 million, including refugees and foreign residents. (references)

Human Rights

Croatia

From October 2000 to May 2001, over 50 persons were arrested, 28 of whom were refugees. (references)

South Africa

Some of the refugees alleged that Home Affairs employees assaulted them and requested bribes. (references)

Guinea

Refugees stated that they were beaten severely and deprived of food and water for up to 8 days. (references)

Minorities

Lebanon

Refugees fear that the Government may reduce the size of the camps or eliminate them completely. (references)

Lebanon

Under legislation enacted in April, Palestinian refugees may no longer own property in the country. (references)

Lebanon

Most Palestinian refugees live in overpopulated camps that have suffered repeated heavy damage as a result of fighting. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Fewer than 2,000 Ethiopian refugees remained in the country at year's end. (references)

Uae

The UAE joined the US in providing assistance to the Kosovar refugees and the Bosnian Federation. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Police failed to ensure security for refugees returning to areas in which they were an ethnic minority. (references)

Political Rights

Burundi

Of the 26 cabinet seats, women fill 3: The Minister of Social Affairs; the Minister of Reintegration of Refugees; and the Minister at the Presidency for HIV/AIDS. (references)

Togo

In addition the accord addressed the rights and duties of political parties and the media, the safe return of refugees, the security of all citizens, and a provision for compensating victims of political violence. (references)

Macedonia

A national census was planned for October, and was specifically called for in the Framework Agreement; however, leaders of all major ethnic-Macedonian and ethnic-Albanian political parties agreed to postpone it until April 2002. As grounds for their decision, they cited large numbers of displaced persons and refugees absent from their homes, lack of adequate preparation, and continuing security concerns in areas of conflict. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

ADB's operations will start with assistance to the poor, including refugees and internal displaced persons (IDPs), and with support for the non-oil sectors in order to promote economic growth and creation of more and better job opportunities. (references)

Women

Yemen

The procedure mainly is confined to excision, with infibulation being practiced only among East African immigrants and refugees. (references)

Worker Rights

France

ASE works closely with the Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "REFUGEES": aid to refugees ♦ stream of refugees. Additional references.

Ending with "REFUGEES": non-refugees.

Danish

flygtninge. (various references)

Dutch

repatriering en hervestiging van vluchtelingen (repatriating and resettling refugees), Platform voor Samenwerking van het Europese Rode Kruis voor vluchtelingen, asielzoekers en migranten (Asylum Seekers and Migrants, PERCO, Platform of the European Red Cross Cooperation for Refugees). (various references)

French

réfugiés. (various references)

German

Flüchtlinge (escapees, fugitives). (various references)

Greek 

πρόσφυγες. (various references)

Italian

rimpatrio e nuova sistemazione di rifugiati (repatriating and resettling refugees), Ufficio federale dei rifugiati (Federal Office for Refugees), Divisione principale Richiedenti l'asilo e rifugiati (Asylum Seekers and Refugees Main Division). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

難民 , 避難民 (evacuees), 流民 , 残党 (remnants). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

な�"み�", ざ�"とう (remnants), ひな�"み�" (evacuees), りゅうみ�", るみ�". (various references)

Pig Latin

efugeesray

Portuguese

refugiados. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izbeglice. (various references)

Spanish

refugiados. (various references)

Swedish

flyktingström (stream of refugees), flyktinghjälp (aid to refugees). (various references)

Misspellings

"REFUGEES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: refugere, refugess, regugees. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: refugee, refuges.

-2 letters: refuge, refuse.

-3 letters: egers, feres, frees, frugs, fusee, geese, grees, grues, reefs, reges, resee, reuse, segue, serge, surge, urges.

-4 letters: eger, ergs, fees, fere, feus, free, frug, fugs, furs, fuse, gees, gree, grue, reef, rees, refs, regs, rues, rugs, ruse, seer, sere, serf, suer, sure, surf, urge, user.

-5 letters: efs, ere, erg.

+2 letters: fenugreeks, refugeeism.

+3 letters: enfleurages, refugeeisms, refulgences.

+5 letters: recentrifuges, regretfulness.

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