{
    "term": "refugee",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who has been forced to leave their country or home, because there is a war or for political, religious or social reasons",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There has been a steady flow of refugees from the war zone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**political/economic refugees**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**political refugees**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **refugee camp**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A flood of displaced refugees fled west."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our biggest challenge is the plight of refugees at our southern border."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hundreds of refugees poured out of the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These are some of the most vulnerable refugees, including former detainees, women, children, and survivors of human trafficking."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country has a long tradition of giving asylum to political refugees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has been granted refugee status."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Home Office has refused him refugee status."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was born in a refugee camp."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘We are in a global refugee crisis,’ she said."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They raised money to help a refugee family be resettled in Cornwall."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is feared that climate change will produce environmental refugees on a massive scale."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a new influx of refugees from the combat zone"
                },
                {
                    "text": "refugees displaced by the civil war"
                },
                {
                    "text": "refugees fleeing political persecution"
                },
                {
                    "text": "refugees from civil wars"
                },
                {
                    "text": "refugees living in camps along the border"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several thousand refugees are reported to have fled to the eastern border."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["War and conflict", "Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["genuine", "would-be", "former"],
                "verb + refugee": ["qualify as", "be considered (as)", "accept"],
                "refugee + verb": ["flee something", "be displaced", "arrive"],
                "refugee + noun": ["crisis", "issue", "problem"],
                "preposition": ["among refugee", "refugee from"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a flood of refugees",
                    "a influx of refugees",
                    "the flow of refugees"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌrefjuˈdʒiː/",
                "audio": "re/refugee/refugee__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌrefjuˈdʒiː/",
                "audio": "re/refugee/refugee__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 17th cent.: from French réfugié ‘gone in search of refuge’, past participle of (se) réfugier, from refuge, from Latin refugium, from Latin re- ‘back’ + fugere ‘flee’."
}