displacement

displacement
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Removal from the usual place
Nouns
1. displacement, misplacement, dislocation (see disjunction); transposition; ejection, dislodgment, exile; removal (see transportation); fish out of water; dispossession, disestablishment; migration. Slang, golden exile, outplacement.
2. displaced person, DP; displaced homemaker; expatriate, refugee, evacuee boat person; Ishmael, outcast, Wandering Jew, man without a country, Burakumin; exile, émigré, emigrant; lost generation; homeless person. See exclusion.
Verbs — displace, dislocate, displant, dislodge, disestablish; dispossess; exile, seclude, transpose; set aside, move, remove; take away or off; unload, empty (see ejection); transfer, cart off or away; dispel; disarrange, disorder; vacate, depart (see departure). Slang, bump.
Adjectives — displaced, misplaced, dislocated, unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished, unsettled; dispossessed, homeless; out of place; out of its element. Informal, like a fish out of water.
Quotations — Arms and the man I sing, the first who came, compelled by fate, an exile out of Troy, to Italy and the Lavinian coast (Virgil).
Antonyms, see location.
II
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A change in normal place or position: dislocation, disturbance, move, movement, rearrangement, shift. See MOVE.

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