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refoulment

refoulment is the alternative spelling of refoulement.

Meaning of refoulement

Noun

refoulement (countable and uncountable, plural refoulements)

  1. (uncountable, international law) The involuntary sending of refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin or another one, where they are likely to face persecution and harm.
    • He also expressed concern that at the same time there could be cases of refoulement with asylum seekers being returned to their countries of origin, where they are at risk of persecution and in an apparent breach of international law.2020 August 26, Gabriel Ewepu-Abuja, “AYM [Afrika Youth Movement] receives UNESCO’s Support to Create Awareness on Migration, COVID-19 in Nigeria, 7 Others”, in Vanguard, Lagos, Nigeria: Vanguard...
    Antonyms:
    non-refoulement
  2. (countable, international law) An instance thereof.
    Antonyms:
    non-refoulement
  3. (archaic, uncountable) The forced relocation of a group of people.
  4. (archaic, countable) An instance of that relocation.

Forms of refoulment

pluralrefoulments

Questions about refoulment

What is refoulment the alternative spelling of?
Refoulment is the alternative spelling of refoulement.

Words near refoulment in the dictionary

  1. refoul
  2. refouled
  3. refoulement
  4. refoulements
  5. refouling
  6. refoulment
  7. refoulments
  8. refouls
  9. refound
  10. refoundation
  11. refoundations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refoulment (page history and authors); refoulement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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