Displaced

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Definitions and meanings of "Displaced"

What do we mean by displaced?

To put out of place; to disarrange.

To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.

To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.

To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.

(of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

To repress

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The word "displaced" in example sentences

Our donation would not be used for their needs, but instead be used for children who were less fortunate and living in tent cites after being displaced from the quake. ❋ Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine (2010)

The UN had a mandate to develop Palestine and allow a portion – a SMALL portion – of Palestine to be set aside to relocate Jews displaced from the war. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Base-shift dewarping can situate the narrative in an elsewhen displaced from the here-and-now in a third dimension. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Nearly nine months after Haiti's devastating earthquake more than a million people remain displaced and 500,000 children are still out of school. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

China will be swamped by yet more dollars displaced from the US, but is determined, as the governor of the Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, repeated, to move with extreme gradualism on its currency, if it moves at all. ❋ Will Hutton (2010)

Some 30,000 people remain displaced one year after the war between Russia and Georgia over the South Ossetia region, a leading human rights agency reports. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“We will have ever larger numbers of people displaced from the Sunderbans as more island areas come under water,” he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Our dining table has a treadmill stored under it, and the living room is a storage area for bicycles, boxes, and furniture displaced from the damaged room. ❋ Unknown (2009)

CWS proposes to organize and execute a processing and relocation program for Americans who remain displaced as result of evacuations and destruction of housing in their communities. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Tens of thousands of residents remain displaced as authorities dither over how to disburse housing assistance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Farmers displaced from the region moved across Europe, bringing their agricultural knowledge with them, according to researcher Chris Turney. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Leena soon meets a pair of adventurers: Hieronymous Boneventure, displaced from the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and Balam, a dethroned jaguar man prince and native of Paragaea. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In Scotland, the major cities were becoming increasingly aware of the problems posed by the poor displaced from the rural areas, although awareness did not necessarily result in a willingness to deal with the problems (Dwyer [1989]). ❋ Unknown (2006)

Nearly 750,000 households remain displaced by Katrina, of which about 650,000 are receiving rental assistance, or about $800 a month. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So much, I suppose, for Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston's Farewell to Manzanar (1973), another good book displaced from the school canon by a bad one. ❋ Unknown (2001)

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