Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Removed from a particular regiment, but at liberty to serve in some other corps: applied to certain officers in the British service when so transferred by reason of misconduct, or for any other cause.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
displace .
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Examples
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Our donation would not be used for their needs, but instead be used for children who were less fortunate and living in tent cites after being displaced from the quake.
Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine: Words to Live By: Kindness is Contagious (VIDEO) Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine 2010
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Some 30,000 people remain displaced one year after the war between Russia and Georgia over the South Ossetia region, a leading human rights agency reports.
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Nearly nine months after Haiti's devastating earthquake more than a million people remain displaced and 500,000 children are still out of school.
NBA's Samuel Dalembert Visits Haiti Hometown Still In Rubble Lauren Sullivan 2010
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Our donation would not be used for their needs, but instead be used for children who were less fortunate and living in tent cites after being displaced from the quake.
Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine: Words to Live By: Kindness is Contagious (VIDEO) Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine 2010
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Nearly nine months after Haiti's devastating earthquake more than a million people remain displaced and 500,000 children are still out of school.
NBA's Samuel Dalembert Visits Haiti Hometown Still In Rubble The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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China will be swamped by yet more dollars displaced from the US, but is determined, as the governor of the Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, repeated, to move with extreme gradualism on its currency, if it moves at all.
History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly Will Hutton 2010
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Base-shift dewarping can situate the narrative in an elsewhen displaced from the here-and-now in a third dimension.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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“We will have ever larger numbers of people displaced from the Sunderbans as more island areas come under water,” he said.
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Base-shift dewarping can situate the narrative in an elsewhen displaced from the here-and-now in a third dimension.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
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Our donation would not be used for their needs, but instead be used for children who were less fortunate and living in tent cites after being displaced from the quake.
Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine: Words to Live By: Kindness is Contagious (VIDEO) Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine 2010
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