verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
displaced person
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
people
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There is the dual danger that scarce financial resources will be displaced and that people will choose analysis over action.
war
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Over 250,000 former government soldiers awaited rehabilitation and 1,500,000 people had been displaced by the war .
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Many of its own people have been displaced by civil war or uprooted by drought or flood.
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Aid agencies say that about 110,000 people in the peninsula are displaced because of the war .
worker
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In the past, new technology has mainly displaced manual workers .
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Often, the government would do better just to pay displaced workers to stay home rather than artificially keep the business afloat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An estimated 500,000 refugees have been displaced by the civil war.
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Compact discs displaced records in the late 1980s.
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Flooding caused by the dam may displace up to a million people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Furthermore, such migrated oil is likely to have been displaced by subsequent migrating gas.
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In a week the displaced honeysuckle vines, the wild roses, the grapevines, the grass, would be back.
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Some of the companies that have been displaced have, in their time, displaced others.
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Spence's product was an ammonium alum which gradually displaced the potash alum which had been made principally at Whitby.
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The high ridge displaces ocean water.
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This dam is going to displace 25,000 Kurds in a war region.
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Thus several measures are available to displace natural gas for a higher use as a facilitator of coal combustion.