Definitions for REFUGEES
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1. refugees

   A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of his or her country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by the contracting state or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) if they formally make a claim for asylum.

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1. Refugees

   "Refugees" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Wire. Written by Dennis Lehane from a story by Ed Burns & Dennis Lehane, and directed by Jim McKay, it originally aired on October 1, 2006.

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1. Refugees

   Persons fleeing to a place of safety, especially those who flee to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution in their own country or habitual residence because of race, religion, or political belief. (Webster, 3d ed)

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'REFUGEES' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4638

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1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of REFUGEES in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of REFUGEES in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of REFUGEES in a Sentence

1. Michael Woodman:

   Vulnerability of refugees is increasing with 70% now living below the poverty line.

2. Melanie Nezer:

   I could watch brain surgery for a day or two; that doesn't make me a brain surgeon, you cannot get an appreciation for the scale of this crisis and the global implications of it by spending a day or two talking to a few refugees in one location.

3. Bashar Batayneh:

   Jordan bore the heavy load of the Syrian refugee crises on behalf of the international community and was deeply impacted regarding water. Refugees cost the water sector over $ 600 million per year while Jordan received a fraction of this amount from the international community.

4. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic:

   It is impossible to determine how many refugees have already reached European shores and are somewhere between Greece and Germany, but camps throughout The Balkans, as well as Western Europe, are packed with refugees in increasingly tense situations. Related ImageExpand / ContractPolice in Macedonia hold back hordes of refugees hoping to pass through The Balkans en route to Western Europe. ( FoxNews.com) After Hungary took action, refugees streamed into Croatia from Serbia, prompting Croatia to close its border and trapping some 11,000 inside Serbia. Refugees were still working their way through Macedonia and into Serbia, where they remained stuck at the Hungarian border as Serbian and Hungarian officials traded terse statements. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic accused Hungarian police of lobbing tear gas across the border and urged European Union to condemn the brutal behavior of the Hungarian police to refugees and media workers. Serbia itself can protect its territory and national dignity, and, if necessary, from the European Union, we will protect the European values.

5. Amnesty International:

   The route which takes refugees and migrants by sea from Turkey to Greece and then over land across Macedonia to Serbia and into Hungary is less deadly than the sea crossing from Libya, but it is still fraught with dangers and obstacles.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=REFUGEES