refoulement

发音

UK /ɹəˈfuːlmɒ̃/
US /ɹəˌfulˈmɑn/

词形变化

refoulements 复数 refoulements

别名

refoulment

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

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  2. 2.

    An instance thereof.

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  3. 3.

    The forced relocation of a group of people.

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  4. 4.

    An instance of that relocation.

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词源

Borrowed from French refoulement (“act of pushing something back (as gunpowder into a gun barrel, or water by a dam); act of water overflowing; forced relocation of a group of people; forced repatriation of asylum-seekers or refugees”), from refouler (“to cause to flow or turn back; to repress, suppress; to repulse; to trample on again”) (from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + fouler (“to impress, stamp; to trample, walk on; to mistreat, oppress”) (ultimately from Medieval Latin fullare (“to make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to full”), from Latin fullō (“one who fulls cloth, fuller”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to blow; to inflate, swell”)) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually denoting resulting actions or states).

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