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# evacuee

noun (an evacuee, evacuees); verb evacuate; noun evacuation

«evacuee» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An evacuee is a person who has been moved away from a dangerous place to somewhere safer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuee/#m1)
2. (history, UK) In the Second World War, evacuees were children sent from cities to the countryside to escape bombing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuee/#m2)

### In the lessons

History lessons on the Second World War (Operation Pied Piper, 1939: labels, gas masks, suitcases, host families). News: evacuees from floods, fires, wars and hurricanes. Phrases: child evacuees, wartime evacuee.

### Examples

- The evacuee arrived at the station with a label on her coat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuee/#x1)
- Thousands of evacuees left London in 1939. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuee/#x2)
- The farmer's family took in two evacuees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuee/#x3)
- Evacuees from the wildfire stayed in the school hall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuee/#x4)
- In the story, the evacuee missed his mum terribly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuee/#x5)
- The town welcomed evacuees from the flood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuee/#x6)

### Note

Say «ih-vak-yoo-EE». Countable. Evacuate (verb) is what is done; evacuation is the event; the evacuee is the person. Different from refugee, who has fled to another country; an evacuee is often moved within their own country.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «evacuee» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evacuee/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«evacuee» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/evacuee.html) on Mova free.