evacuee

Everyday

1. An evacuee is a person who has been moved away from a dangerous place to somewhere safer. tree →
2. (history, UK) In the Second World War, evacuees were children sent from cities to the countryside to escape bombing. tree →

In the lessons

History lessons on the Second World War (Operation Pied Piper, 1939: labels, gas masks, suitcases, host families). News: evacuees from floods, fires, wars and hurricanes. Phrases: child evacuees, wartime evacuee.

Examples

• The evacuee arrived at the station with a label on her coat. tree →
• Thousands of evacuees left London in 1939. tree →
• The farmer's family took in two evacuees. tree →
• Evacuees from the wildfire stayed in the school hall. tree →
• In the story, the evacuee missed his mum terribly. tree →
• The town welcomed evacuees from the flood. tree →

Note

Say «ih-vak-yoo-EE». Countable. Evacuate (verb) is what is done; evacuation is the event; the evacuee is the person. Different from refugee, who has fled to another country; an evacuee is often moved within their own country.