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boat peo·ple
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boat peoplenoun
Plural form of boat person.
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Boat people
Boat people is a term that usually refers to refugees, illegal immigrants, or asylum seekers who emigrate in numbers in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made. The term came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from Communist-controlled Vietnam, following the Vietnam War.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of boat people in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of boat people in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of boat people in a Sentence
It is just a media story that boat people are fleeing torture.
We're boat people now, Colin, i mean, you always were. You look like you own the yacht they rent out for rap videos.
Defense Secretary James Mattis:
This is something that we can do again, whether it be refugee boat people from Vietnam, people that have been knocked out of their homes by a hurricane, absolutely it's appropriate to provide logistical support however it's needed.
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- BootsflüchtlingeGerman
- thuyền nhânVietnamese
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