Displacement

/dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/

Synonyms for "displacement" (222 found)

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Strong matches (66)

Noun(22 words)
dislocationsdislodgingdisplaceddisplacement measurementdisplacement reactiondisplacing actionectopiaelutionengulfingestrangementevacuatingevacuationevictionevictionsextent of deviationextractionextractionsfleeingforced relocationgentrification
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latin motiomajor upheaval
Verb(3 words)
displace peopledisplace residentsevicting
Adjective(2 words)
forced relocation during warlong term displacement

Related words (111)

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More general

18 entries
change of locationchemical reactiondefencedefence mechanismdefence reactiondefensedefense mechanismdefense reactionmental processmotionmovemovementreactionrejectionreplacementreplacing

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More specific

7 entries
anger displacementangular displacementevictionforced relocationfrustration displacementhorizontal displacementvertical displacement

Collocations

5 entries
displacement vectorforced displacementhorizontal displacementpopulation displacementvertical displacement

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

4 entries

Translations

15 translations across 12 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • zhvendosje noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • водоизместимост noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Catalan

1 entries
  • desplaçament noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Danish

1 entries
  • deplacement noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Finnish

2 entries
  • uppoama noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)
  • uppouma noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

German

3 entries
  • Deplacement noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)
  • Verdrängung noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)
  • Wasserverdrängung noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • vízkiszorítás noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Norwegian

1 entries
  • deplasement noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • deplasement noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • deplasement noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Russian

1 entries
  • водоизмеще́ние noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Swedish

1 entries
  • deplacement noun (the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship)

Sample sentences

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The Displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter, by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is — second only to American political campaigns — the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.

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Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.

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The workers of the northern countries have paid a high price for the displacement of production in the southern regions.

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A displacement reaction is a chemical reaction in which the cation or anion of one reactant is replaced by one from another reactant.

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