RELOCATEE Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

relocatee

noun

Definition of relocatee

as in refugee

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Noun

Both programs run through Asian Refugees United (ARU), a Harrisburg nonprofit that also teaches cultural classes to refugee children.

— Maansi Srivastava, NPR, 21 July 2026
Dinu’s reflections are intercut with stories from their past, memories of Varsha’s therapeutic work, and stories of the migrants and post-partition refugees who lived and worked at Tavoy.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of refugee

Noun

The club’s members, including an industrialist and his expatriate niece, the president and his pampered wife, and a slew of Chinese tourists, engage in a complex dance with the doting and subservient staff.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
In Spain, 10 people were still unaccounted for Monday from a fire that ripped through a remote southern expatriate community last week, killing 13 people in one of the country's deadliest blazes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026

Definition of expatriate

Noun

Note the poster of the defector Mikhail Baryshnikov hawking Crime and Punishment.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Anthropic, whose ranks include many safety-minded defectors from its rival, argues the slower rollout will help society adapt to the powerful new tools.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026

Definition of defector

Noun

In April, House Democrats, with the support of a handful of Republicans, passed legislation extending temporary protections for Haitian immigrants by three years.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
Two recent killings of immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have raised questions about whether the shootings were justified.

— Sarah Matusek, Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2026

Definition of immigrant

Noun

The journey leads from the jungle into the Andes — and from fieldwork into memory, exile and family loss.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 17 July 2026
In hard years, Noe Terrebonne, the great-great-grandson of Acadian exiles, would do a bit of smuggling for Li Shan, the Chinese proprietor of a shrimp-drying platform on Bayou Andre, in the marsh north-west of Cheniere Disparue.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026

Definition of exile

Noun

At the height of the border crisis, Hartman said agents sometimes encountered groups of up to 70 migrants moving through the underground maze.

— Brooke Taylor, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
The foreign minister told me that in the southern Mexican city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, about 140 miles from the nearest Mexico-Guatemala border crossing, a tractor-trailer had crashed while carrying more than 160 Guatemalan migrants.

— Ken Salazar, Time, 20 July 2026

Definition of migrant

Noun

González has witnessed the ties between Mexico and its emigrants abroad evolve over four decades, starting as a young consular officer in the administration of Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

— Alfredo Corchado, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
The book looked at the world of a swath of Irish women emigrants who were deemed troublemakers, highlighting that for a period of time, Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026

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