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What is the noun for refugee?

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refuge
  1. A state of safety, protection or shelter.
  2. A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
  3. Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
  4. An expedient to secure protection or defence.
  5. A refuge island.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The park serves as a refuge for many species of flora and fauna.”
      “Holkar and his regent mother had shut themselves up in a remote fortress as a refuge against the disaffected soldiery.”
      “Churches have become the only refuge for people who have lost everything.”
refugee
  1. A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, i.e., a person seeking a political asylum.
  2. A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster.
  3. A person formally granted a political or economic asylum by a country other than his home country.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “In one picture, she draws Lizzie as a haunted, saucer-eyed refugee running from some unspecified peril.”
      “O'Leary was reduced to being a refugee simply through having the courage of her convictions.”
      “Browning emphasized that Mrs. Fitz, who was living as a refugee in St. Louis, was nearly indigent.”
refugeehood
  1. The state of being a refugee.
  2. Examples:
    1. “No people can be expected to accept a political solution that condemns them to a permanent state of poverty, statelessness and refugeehood.”
refut
  1. (obsolete) refuge
refugees
  1. plural of refugee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He sits in on interviews which can last up to seven hours and can be harrowing if the refugees have had traumatic experiences.”
      “The Tories have unfairly omitted to mention that the government is treating refugees appallingly.”
      “There were the refugees in Chad, the landless in Brazil, and a global workforce from oilmen in Kuwait to tea pickers in Rwanda.”
refuges
  1. plural of refuge
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He did, however, oppose the amendment to halt the use of leghold traps on national wildlife refuges.”
      “In addition to these, there are a host of wildlife refuges, marine parks, biological reserves and privately established preserves and ecolodges.”
      “Soon, the flood of refuges overwhelms the establishment, and all of the foreigners flee the war-torn nation.”
refugeeism
  1. The state of being a refugee.
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