RELOCATEES Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

relocatees

noun

plural of relocatee

as in refugees

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Noun

Cárdenas, a civil engineer by training, was the son of President Lázaro Cárdenas, who nationalized the oil industry in 1938 and opened Mexico to refugees from the Spanish Civil War.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
He was martyred by the Nazis for aiding Jewish refugees during World War II.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of refugees

Noun

In May 2025, Miller publicly demanded a dramatic increase in daily arrests, placing pressure on ICE leadership and expanding enforcement beyond immigrants who had been convicted of serious crimes.

— Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
The policies come as an unprecedented number of immigrants held in Aurora have challenged their detention in federal court, prompting judges to repeatedly order their release.

— Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of immigrants

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 emigrants

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 expatriates

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Another agent had shown him a photo of a half-dozen migrants jammed in a porta-potty to share body heat.

— Francisco Cantú, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Abbott bused migrants from the border to Chicago, often without a clear destination or adequate clothing for harsh Illinois winters.

— Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of migrants

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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 defectors

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