Synonyms for refugee
ˌrɛf yʊˈdʒi, ˈrɛf yʊˌdʒirefugee

Princeton's WordNet

1. refugeenoun

   an exile who flees for safety

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1. • Exile

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1. refugeenoun

   Synonyms:
   fugitive, runaway

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1. List of paraphrases for "refugee":

   refugees, refuge, asylum, réfugiés

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1. Juergen Trittin:

   One organizes resistance among the conservatives to a humanitarian refugee policy while the other uses his propaganda network to mobilize hundreds of German-Russians to hold hostile demonstrations outside German refugee homes.

2. Paul Ryan:

   We intend to take a bill to the floor on Thursday to have a pause in this refugee program.

3. Mayor Ed Murray:

   The federal government can not compel our police department to enforce federal immigration law and can not use our federal dollars to coerce Seattle into turning our backs on our immigrant and refugee communities. We simply wo n’t do it.

4. El Hillo:

   Unless something big is done to resolve this conflict through political means, the human train that has started moving out of Syria and the neighborhood will continue to be running for many months to come, europe will be faced with a refugee situation similar to the one that led to the creation of UNHCR in 1950.

5. Joaquin Castro:

   I am urging a full investigation by the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of this incident, and also the Department's policy with respect to the use of local police and a review of refugee shelter's employee training and trauma-informed care practices, no matter who you are or where you come from, everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect by law enforcement. The incident reaffirms the importance of quickly placing these children without their parents into the care of family relatives or sponsors in the United States while their asylum cases are adjudicated.