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displaced person
noun
a person driven or expelled from their homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. DP, D.P.
displaced person
noun
DP.a person forced from his home or country, esp by war or revolution
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of displaced person1
Example Sentences
Truman was deeply moved by the plight of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust stranded in displaced persons camps in Europe.
Some people who relocate to nearby areas may be counted as internally displaced persons, or IDPs, if they register with authorities, Williams explained.
Meanwhile in Gaza, 10 people in a school sheltering displaced persons were killed by an Israeli strike, Hamas said on Saturday.
On Friday evening, she arrived with her elderly parents, shaken, hungry and a bit lost, at a Kharkiv school that has been turned into a displaced persons’ reception center.
“Any blowup related to the issue of displaced persons will not be limited to Lebanon but will extend to Europe to become a regional and international crisis,” he said.
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