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evacuation

Removal of civilian inhabitants from an area liable to aerial bombing or other hazards (such as the aftermath of an environmental disaster) to safer surroundings. The term is also applied to military evacuation. People who have been evacuated are known as evacuees.
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HAVING just returned from London and marching at the Cenotaph as an evacuee, I felt I must write to let you know what a wonderful day it was.
Pride in our day; MAILBAG by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Dorothy Cantwell Inverness, Highlands Q I WAS an evacuee in the Second World War and seem to remember Vera Lynn's Goodnight Children Everywhere was banned by the BBC for being too upsetting for evacuees.
Question Time; your letters by The Mirror (London, England)
ISLAMABAD, November 06, 2009 (Balochistan Times): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Friday ordered a probe into the allegations levelled against Syed Asif Hashmi, Chairman, Evacuee Trust Property Board, on his own request.
PM orders enquiry committee to probe allegations against Ch. ETPB by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)
 
 
 
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