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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deportation from a place |
| Synonyms: | banishment, diaspora, dispersion, displacement, exclusion, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, migration, ostracism, proscription, relegation, scattering, separation |
| Main Entry: | deportation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishment |
| Synonyms: | displacement, eviction, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, ostracism, relegation, removal, transportation |
| Antonyms: | approval, permission |
| Main Entry: | dismissal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | release |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, banishment, bounce, brush-off, cold shoulder, congé, deportation, deposal, deposition, discharge, dislodgment, displacement, dispossession, dissolution, door*, end, eviction, exile, exorcism, expatriation, expulsion, freedom, freeing, housecleaning, kiss-off, layoff, liberation, marching orders, notice, old heave-ho, ostracism, ouster, permission, pink slip, relegation, removal, suspension |
| Antonyms: | acceptance, appointment, employment, hiring, maintainance, retention, welcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ejection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion |
| Synonyms: | banishment, disbarment, discharge, dismissal, elimination, eviction, exile, ouster, removal, the boot, the heave-ho, the sack, throwing out |
| Main Entry: | emigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leaves his or her native country |
| Synonyms: | alien, colonist, departer, displaced person, evacuee, exile, expatriate, fugitive, migrant, migrator, outcast, pilgrim, refugee, traveler, wanderer, wayfarer, émigré |
| Notes: | an emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another while an immigrant is someone who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
| Antonyms: | nationalist, native |
| Main Entry: | émigré |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emigrant |
| Synonyms: | DP, displaced person, exile, expatriate, foreigner, migrant, refugee |
| Main Entry: | expatriate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person thrown out of a country |
| Synonyms: | departer, deportee, displaced person, emigrant, evacuee, exile, expellee, migrant, outcast, refugee, émigré |
| Main Entry: | expulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishing |
| Synonyms: | banishment, boot, bounce, debarment, deportment, discharge, dislodgment, dismissal, displacement, dispossession, driving out, ejection, eviction, exclusion, exile, expatriation, extrusion, forcing out, ostracism, ouster, ousting, proscription, purge, relegation, removal, rush, suspension |
| Antonyms: | import, welcoming |
| Main Entry: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person escaping from law or other pursuer |
| Synonyms: | bolter, derelict, deserter, displaced person, dodger, escapee, escaper, evacuee, exile, fly-by-night, hermit, hunted person, outcast, outlaw, recluse, refugee, runagate, runaway, stray, transient, truant, vagabond, waif, walkout, émigré |
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