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Refugee vs Victim - What's the difference?

refugee | victim |

As nouns the difference between refugee and victim

is that refugee is a person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, ie, a person seeking a political asylum while victim is (original sense) a living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of christ in the eucharist.

As a verb refugee

is (transitive|us|historical) to convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.

refugee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, i.e., a person seeking a political asylum.
  • A person seeking refuge in a foreign country due to poverty and no prospect of overcoming said poverty in his home country, i.e., a person seeking an economic asylum.
  • A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster.
  • A person formally granted a political or economic asylum by a country other than his home country.
  • Derived terms

    * reffo * refugeehood

    See also

    * asylum * economic asylum * political asylum * refuge * refoulement * citizenshipless * countryless * nationless

    Verb

  • (transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.
  • victim

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (original sense) A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
  • Anyone who is harmed by another.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
  • An aggrieved or disadvantaged party in a crime (e.g. swindle.)
  • A person who suffers any other injury, loss, or damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking.
  • An unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , chapter=6, tritle= The Younger Set , passage=“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
  • (label) A character who is conquered or manipulated by a villain.