RELOCATEE Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

relocatee

noun

Definition of relocatee

as in refugee

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Noun

Kamiński left Poland as a political refugee in 1981, dreaming of American movies.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2026
In the short, a group of refugees from a post-apocalyptic Earth search for a new planet to call home.

— Matt Alt, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of refugee

Noun

But unlike most Israeli expatriates, his return voyage was a 10,000-mile, 30-plus-hour odyssey from a remote sheep station in the Australian outback to his village in the Galilee, in northern Israel.

— Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2026
Thousands of Serb expatriates in the United States, Australia and New Zealand face the same problem.

— Branimir Pipal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of expatriate

Noun

And their escape routes are narrowing; since Kim sealed off the borders during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of North Korean defectors reaching South Korea has plummeted.

— Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
Poaching defectors Netanyahu is likely looking for weak links in the opposition bloc, which spans Israel’s political spectrum.

— Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of defector

Noun

Still, Becerra, who grew up in a working-class immigrant family, has shown a personal interest in allying with organized labor.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Last year’s winner Maido, for example, was a Peruvian restaurant run by Mitsuharu ‘Micha’ Tsumura, who is a descendant of Japanese immigrants to Peru and uses Japanese cooking techniques.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of immigrant

Noun

Last New Year’s Eve, a boat carrying more than 200 migrants sank off the coast of Gambia.

— Eve Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
Some in the caravans gathering this week hope that after the elections, migrants might receive better treatment at the hands of US immigration officials.

— Merlín Delcid, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of migrant

Noun

Baksheng leaves behind a family and then creates a new one with other Teochew emigrants at an inn run by a feminist daughter, Zia Lamgi (Li Sitong) who dodges a revolving door of suitors.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
The decision could have broad implications for descendants of Italian emigrants, particularly in North and South America, where large Italian diaspora communities have ancestral ties to Italy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of emigrant

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