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displaced, ppl. a.|dɪsˈpleɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
a. Removed from its place; put out of place; deposed: see the verb.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. Ep. Ded. 6 There be..many displaced words. 1823Ellis Mem. Gordon 18 To retain the head of the bone in its displaced situation. 1839G. Bird Nat. Philos. 90 Archimedes..discovered that a body, when immersed in a fluid, loses a portion of its weight equal to that of the displaced fluid. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 15 No mention was made of the displaced vizir.
b. displaced person, one removed from his home country by military or political pressure, esp. a non-German compelled to work in Germany in the 1939–45 war, and thereafter homeless. Abbrev. D.P.
1944Sat. Even. Post 22 July 14/1 The Refugees..or, as they term these people here..the Displaced Persons. 1945Broadcaster (U.S.) June 7 The real difficulty was and is the care of the slave laborers, men, women and children the Germans had imported from all over Europe to do their work for them. These we call Displaced Persons and for brevity refer to them as DP's. 1946Ann. Reg. 1945 64 The huge number of ‘displaced persons’ who were still wandering about. 1961L. Mumford City in History vi. 198 The very migrations of prisoners, slaves, refugees, displaced persons, all widened the bonds of human association. |