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  • noun A person who has been evacuated from a dangerous area.

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  • noun A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war

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  • noun a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place

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Examples

  • Following up on a footnote to yesterday's post about violence in evacuee shelters -- and speculation that withdrawal from illicit and prescription meds may be a factor -- Boing Boing reader Laura says

    Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Since the evacuee is in a shelter, mail service has been suspended in many of the hardest hit areas and some of the homes are likely still under water, it seems clear that those claim forms won't be mailed back any time soon.

    Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Imagine the coolness of a Shelter OS that could, with little or no work by the staff, find other Shelter OS’s running elsewhere, trade information with them and start to link up scattered families or automatically bring along medical information and history as an evacuee is moved from shelter to shelter.

    Recovery 2.0: A call to convene « BuzzMachine 2005

  • The consequences of their relationship resonate through the lives of a vividly imagined cast of characters: the drunken BBC comedian who befriends Esther, Esther's stubborn father, and the resentful young British "evacuee" who lives on the farm -- even the German-Jewish interrogator investigating the most notorious German prisoner in Wales, Rudolf Hess.

    The Welsh Girl: Summary and book reviews of The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies. 2007

  • Barry Lemoine, a refugee (or are we saying "evacuee" now?) from Hurricane Katrina has been living in Troy, writing for the local paper.

    Voices from the Storm Richard Nokes 2005

  • Barry Lemoine, a refugee (or are we saying "evacuee" now?) from Hurricane Katrina has been living in Troy, writing for the local paper.

    September 2005 Dr. Richard Scott Nokes 2005

  • Barry Lemoine, a refugee (or are we saying "evacuee" now?) from Hurricane Katrina has been living in Troy, writing for the local paper.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Richard Nokes 2005

  • The word "evacuee" may not be fully accurate if, as I suspect, many of the displaced persons end up settling elsewhere permanently.

    Refugees. Evacuees. Okies. bradamant 2005

  • First, though, a different kind of evacuee problem.

    CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2005 2005

  • First, though, a different kind of evacuee problem.

    CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2005 2005

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