Word Meanings - REFUGEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety. 2. Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict

Additional info about word: REFUGEE

1. One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety. 2. Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

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• SAFETY BICYCLE
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• PLACEMENT
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• POWERFUL
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