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asylee

noun
/əsaɪˈli/

Etymology

From asylum + -ee.

  1. derived from ἄσυλον
  2. borrowed from asylum
  3. formed as asylee — “asylum + -ee”

Definitions

  1. A non-citizen of a country who has been granted asylum in that country.

    • "It is quite a novel technique to teach a lesson to any would-be asylees, and also to send a message to the foreign missions."
    • EMM brings in LGBTQ refugees and asylees in a special federal refugee program started during the Obama administration called “Preferred Communities.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for asylee. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA