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displace
verb as in move, remove from normal place
verb as in remove from position of responsibility
Example Sentences
Tech leaders including Elon Musk have characterized it as a critical tool for securing in-demand high-skilled workers, while skeptics believe that many visa recipients displace American workers and depress their wages.
As a fragile ceasefire holds, displaced Palestinian residents of Gaza City have returned to their homes only to find rubble, with many of them forced to camp out in makeshift shelters.
School buildings became shelters for displaced Palestinians throughout the conflict, and were frequently targeted by IDF forces with the justification that they housed "command and control" centres for Hamas and affiliated groups.
"The generosity of Haitian communities hosting displaced people must be matched by renewed international support."
A local Taliban official in Spin Boldak told the BBC that "hundreds of families have been displaced since last night due to the heavy clashes".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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