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asylum-seeker

asylum-seeker is the alternative spelling of asylum seeker.

Meaning of asylum seeker

Noun

asylum seeker (plural asylum seekers)

  1. A person who has applied for asylum in a foreign country but has not yet been granted refugee status by that country.
    • He stayed with friends and even spent a few nights in a hotel when had nowhere else to go. In September 2019, he moved into a flat with three other gay asylum seekers through Le Refuge, an organisation supporting isolated LGBTQI+ youth.2020 August 5, Francesca Spinelli, “Meet David: born in France, raised in Belgium, facing removal to the DRC”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2021

Forms of asylum-seeker

pluralasylum-seekers

Questions about asylum-seeker

What is asylum-seeker the alternative spelling of?
Asylum-seeker is the alternative spelling of asylum seeker.

Words near asylum-seeker in the dictionary

  1. asylum hotel
  2. asylum hotels
  3. asylum seeker
  4. asylum seekers
  5. asylum shopping
  6. asylum-seeker
  7. asylum-seekers
  8. asylumlike
  9. asylums
  10. asym
  11. asymbiosis

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