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asylum seekers

asylum seekers is the plural 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

Questions about asylum seekers

What is asylum seekers the plural of?
Asylum seekers is the plural of asylum seeker.

Words near asylum seekers in the dictionary

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

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