evacuee
pronunciation
How to pronounce evacuee in British English:
UK [ɪˌvækjuˈi:]
How to pronounce evacuee in American English:
US [ɪˌvækjuˈi]
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- Noun:
- a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place
Word Origin
- evacuee (n.)
- 1934, from French évacué, from évacuer, from Latin evacuare "to empty" (see evacuate) + -ee. Evacuant (n.) was used from 1730s in medicine.
Example
- 1. Not quite true , said hiroe sasaki , a 42-year-old evacuee .
- 2. Joseph tame in tokyo tweets : " wondering if there will be an evacuee program set up similar to wartime britain , and if so , can we take someone in ? "
- 3. The results verify the positive effects of households gathering behaviors on the under-estimation of total network clearance time , and provide useful reference for the further studies of evacuee behavior analysis under the conditions of emergency .
- 4. A woman sits motionless at an evacuee center for leaked radiation from the damaged fukushima nuclear facilities friday march 25 2011 in soma fukushima prefecture japan .
- 5. " Bail-out " was listed fourth after the bank bail-out was one of the first acts of the financial crisis , " evacuee " came fifth in the wake of hurricane katrina devastating new orleans , and " derivative " featured fifth .