internally displaced person

From internally +‎ displaced +‎ person.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˌtɜːnəli dɪsˌpleɪst ˈpɜːsn̩/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˌtɜɹnəli dɪsˌpleɪst ˈpɜɹs(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sən
• Hyphenation: in‧tern‧al‧ly dis‧placed per‧son

internally displaced person (plural internally displaced persons or internally displaced people)

1. Someone who is forced to flee their home but who remains within their country's borders.

   Synonyms: (initialism) IDP, internal refugee

   Hypernym: displaced person

   • 2023 May 11, Lizzy Davies, “Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 November 2023:

     By the end of 2022 the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) – those forced from their homes but remaining within their country of residence – reached 71 million, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), up from 59.1 million in 2021.

• Internal refugee is often used as a synonym of internally displaced person, even though such a person does not fall within the legal definition of a refugee.

• displaced person
• internal displacement
• internally displaced

• refugee

• internally displaced person on Wikipedia.Wikipedia