displaced person

  • 1Displaced Person — (DP; engl. für eine „Person, die nicht an diesem Ort beheimatet ist“) war die Bezeichnung des Hauptquartiers der alliierten Streitkräfte (SHAEF) für eine Zivilperson, die sich kriegsbedingt außerhalb ihres Heimatstaates aufhält und ohne Hilfe… …

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  • 2Displaced Person (TV) — Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy award winning drama based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the Welcome to the Monkey House collection. The title of the story in that… …

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  • 3displaced person — displaced persons N COUNT A displaced person is someone who has been forced to leave the place where they live, especially because of a war …

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  • 4displaced person — n. a person forced from his or her country, esp. as a result of war, and left homeless elsewhere …

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  • 5displaced person — index derelict Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 6Displaced person — A displaced person (sometimes abbreviated DP) is a person who has been forced to leave his or her native place, a phenomenon known as forced migration. Contents 1 Origin of term 2 International law aspects 3 Derogatory Term …

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  • 7Displaced Person — Dis|placed Per|son 〈[dısplɛıst pœ:sn] f.; , s; Abk.: D. P.〉 im 2. Weltkrieg nach Deutschland (od. in die von deutschen Truppen besetzten Gebiete) verschleppte Person [engl., „verschleppte Person“] * * * Dis|placed Per|son [ dɪspleɪsd pə:sn̩ ],… …

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  • 8displaced person — UK [ˌdɪspleɪst ˈpɜː(r)s(ə)n] / US [ˌdɪspleɪst ˈpɜrs(ə)n] noun [countable] Word forms displaced person : singular displaced person plural displaced persons someone who has been forced to leave their own country and live somewhere else, for example …

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  • 9displaced person — noun a person forced to flee from home or country • Syn: ↑DP, ↑stateless person • Hypernyms: ↑refugee * * * diˌsplaced ˈperson [displaced person] n …

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  • 10Displaced Person — Dis|placed Per|son [dis pleist pə:sn] die; , s <aus engl. displaced person »verschleppte Person«> Bez. für einen Ausländer, der im 2. Weltkrieg nach Deutschland verschleppt wurde; <ausländischer Zwangsarbeiter; Abk.: D. P …

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