refugee

a person who has to leave his/her home country because of war

TRANSLATION

Flüchtling, Aussiedler refugee camp = Fluchtlingslager refugee capital = Fluchtgeld donate to a refugee fund = einem Flüchtlingsfonds spenden

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"Faced with hundreds of thousands of refugees and reports of murders, alliance planners began to talk about the need to 'adapt' their bombing plan."

(Crisis in the Balkans - New York Times March 31, 1999)

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Etymology: French rifugii, past participle of se réfugier to take refuge, from Latin refugium

Date: 1685

: one that flees;
especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution

Merriam-Webster

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