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noun
The involuntary sending of refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin or another one, where they are likely to face persecution and harm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: international law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: non-refoulement
noun
An instance thereof.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Qualifier: international law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: non-refoulement
noun
The forced relocation of a group of people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An instance of that relocation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from French refoulement (“act of pushing something back (as gunpowder into a gun barrel, or water by a dam); act of water overflowing; forced relocation of a group of people; forced repatriation of asylum-seekers or refugees”), from refouler (“to cause to flow or turn back; to repress, suppress; to repulse; to trample on again”) (from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + fouler (“to impress, stamp; to trample, walk on; to mistreat, oppress”) (ultimately from Medieval Latin fullare (“to make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to full”), from Latin fullō (“one who fulls cloth, fuller”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bhleh3- (“to blow; to inflate, swell”)) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually denoting resulting actions or states).
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