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What is the noun for asylee?

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asylum
  1. A place of safety.
  2. The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
  3. (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “We provide asylum for those too ill to care for themselves.”
      “The temple was also an asylum for those in political danger, for debtors, for fugitives, and those needing assistance for any reason.”
      “One group stayed at a nunnery, while others were placed in an asylum for the deranged.”
asylee
  1. A non-citizen of a country who has been granted asylum in that country.
  2. Examples:
    1. “One in 10 students is a refugee or asylee, often from either Cuba or Haiti.”
      “The Refugee Center is proud to host a new and ongoing program, THE POWER OF TWO, for refugee and asylee couples.”
      “With, for example, the grant of asylum provided by Venezuela's President Maduro, my asylee status is now formal, and no state has a basis by which to limit or interfere with my right to enjoy that asylum.”
asyla
asylees
  1. plural of asylee
  2. Examples:
    1. “A question that needs to be addressed by many other states and international organizations concerns the status of long-term refugees and asylees.”
      “Immigrants, refugees, and asylees constitute only a fraction of foreign-born persons who enter the United States each year.”
      “During 1992-2002, an estimated 380,000 to 536,000 persons entered the United States annually as immigrants, refugees, or asylees.”
asylums
  1. plural of asylum
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The exhibition included predictable scenes of patients cowering pitifully in gloomy, overcrowded asylums.”
      “Several states have passed statutes providing for compulsory asexualization of inmates of insane asylums and prisons.”
      “They should conduct demonstrative asylums in and out of the country and propagate the value and effectiveness of the systems among the people.”
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