DISPLACE


Meaning of DISPLACE in English

(~s, displacing, ~d)

1.

If one thing ~s 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 ~d tourism as the country’s largest source of foreign exchange...

VERB: V n

2.

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

In Europe alone thirty million people were ~d...

...the task of resettling refugees and ~d persons.

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

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