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n. One who flees in search of refuge, as in times of war, political oppression, or religious persecution.

n. A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, i.e., a person seeking a political asylum.

n. A person seeking refuge in a foreign country due to poverty and no prospect of overcoming said poverty in his home country, i.e., a person seeking an economic asylum.

n. A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster.

n. A person formally granted a political or economic asylum by a country other than his home country.

n. One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.

n. Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety.

n. One who flees to a refuge or shelter or place of safety.

n. One who in times of persecution or political commotion flees to a foreign country for safety.

n. One of a band of marauders during the American Revolution: so called because they placed themselves under the refuge or protection of the British crown: same as cow-boy, 3.

n. A unionist in the southern United States who, during the civil war, fled to the Northern States.

To become a refugee; take refuge in another country; specifically, during the civil war in the United States, to take refuge in the Northern States: said of unionists in the Southern States.

n. an exile who flees for safety

"Not because "refugee" connotes someone from outside the country who seeks refuge from a political situation which it does, but because the term refugee makes it sound as though helping these people were optional and contingent upon our charitable feelings, rather than an obligation to our fellow citizens."

expatriate    expat    exile   

refuge    asylum    political asylum    economic asylum    refoulement   

stateless person    displaced person    DP   

reffo    refugeehood   

immigrant    emigrant    exile    fugitive    settler    rebel    civilian    tourist    citizen    prisoner