DISPLACE


Meaning of DISPLACE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪspleɪs ]

( displaces, displacing, displaced)

1.

If one thing displaces another, it forces the other thing out of its place, position, or role, and then occupies that place, position, or role itself.

These factories have displaced tourism as the country’s largest source of foreign exchange...

VERB : V n

2.

If a person or group of people is displaced , they are forced to moved away from the area where they live.

In Europe alone thirty million people were displaced...

...the task of resettling refugees and displaced persons.

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed , V-ed

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