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{
"term": "refugee",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a person who has been forced to leave their country or home, because there is a war or for political, religious or social reasons",
"examples": [
{
"text": "There has been a steady flow of refugees from the war zone."
},
{
"text": "**political/economic refugees**"
},
{
"text": "**political refugees**"
},
{
"text": "a **refugee camp**"
},
{
"text": "A flood of displaced refugees fled west."
},
{
"text": "Our biggest challenge is the plight of refugees at our southern border."
},
{
"text": "Hundreds of refugees poured out of the city."
},
{
"text": "These are some of the most vulnerable refugees, including former detainees, women, children, and survivors of human trafficking."
},
{
"text": "The country has a long tradition of giving asylum to political refugees."
},
{
"text": "The government has agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants."
},
{
"text": "She has been granted refugee status."
},
{
"text": "The Home Office has refused him refugee status."
},
{
"text": "He was born in a refugee camp."
},
{
"text": "‘We are in a global refugee crisis,’ she said."
},
{
"text": "They raised money to help a refugee family be resettled in Cornwall."
},
{
"text": "It is feared that climate change will produce environmental refugees on a massive scale."
},
{
"text": "a new influx of refugees from the combat zone"
},
{
"text": "refugees displaced by the civil war"
},
{
"text": "refugees fleeing political persecution"
},
{
"text": "refugees from civil wars"
},
{
"text": "refugees living in camps along the border"
},
{
"text": "Several thousand refugees are reported to have fled to the eastern border."
}
],
"topics": ["War and conflict", "Social issues"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["genuine", "would-be", "former"],
"verb + refugee": ["qualify as", "be considered (as)", "accept"],
"refugee + verb": ["flee something", "be displaced", "arrive"],
"refugee + noun": ["crisis", "issue", "problem"],
"preposition": ["among refugee", "refugee from"],
"phrases": [
"a flood of refugees",
"a influx of refugees",
"the flow of refugees"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌrefjuˈdʒiː/",
"audio": "re/refugee/refugee__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌrefjuˈdʒiː/",
"audio": "re/refugee/refugee__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 17th cent.: from French réfugié ‘gone in search of refuge’, past participle of (se) réfugier, from refuge, from Latin refugium, from Latin re- ‘back’ + fugere ‘flee’."
}