Synonyms for Refugee
ˌrɛf yʊˈdʒi, ˈrɛf yʊˌdʒirefugee

Princeton's WordNet

1. refugeenoun

   an exile who flees for safety

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1. • Exile

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1. refugeenoun

   Synonyms:
   fugitive, runaway

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1. List of paraphrases for "refugee":

   refugees, refuge, asylum, réfugiés

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1. Anne Richard:

   I think the odds of a refugee being a terrorist is very, very small, but that doesn't stop us from focusing our program to make sure nobody comes in who might be a terrorist.

2. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto:

   This is not a refugee crisis or a migrant crisis, it's a mass popular movement with an unlimited supply of people, europe is not in shape to take hundreds of thousands of migrants and it is a mistake for certain EU countries to make statements encouraging them to come to Europe.

3. Josef Joffe:

   The point is not to bring down Merkel, but to chasten and force her to shift from 'open arms' to a more or less closed border to stem the refugee flow, i predict that Seehofer will succeed ... all the more so since she has been seriously weakened.

4. Congressman Deutch:

   I am deeply concerned with documents that have been turned over by HHS that record a high number of sexual assaults on unaccompanied children in the custody of the Office of Refugee and Refugee Resettlement, together, these documents detail an environment of systemic sexual assaults by staff on unaccompanied children.

5. Robert Bentley:

   I have been told by my law enforcement agency, by Homeland Security, that there have been some major threats against the United States after 9?11, and all of those individuals came out of refugee programs.