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Discover Ludwig"displacement" is an accurate and usable word in written English
You can use it when referring to the act of forcing someone or something to move from its original position, or to refer to the amount of something that is moved. For example, you might say: "The recent natural disaster caused a huge displacement of people."
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Displacement
noun
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
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It said: "Due to differences in reporting by our sources, in some cases our new displacement figures reflect the total number of people displaced during the year, whereas in others they reflect only the number of people that remained in displacement at the year's end".
On top of this, the latest labour market survey figures show that the latest rise in net inward migration does not appear to have led to widespread displacement of existing workers.
The NRC said that changes in their data collection methods led to "dramatic adjustments" in this year's data on internal displacement.
In the 1980s we were automating the industry and many lower-technology pits were at risk of displacement as others were turned into computerised superpits - in a stagnant market for coal.
Crises such as the Ebola outbreak in west Africa and mass displacement in Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria triggered a 22% rise in humanitarian spending among the DAC's 28 member countries, which spent $13bn in that area last year, the OECD said.
Roughly 30,000 people were forced from their homes every day in 2014, according to the study Last year's figures show the worst internal displacement "in a generation" signalling that the international community has "completely failed" to protect civilians living in conflict zones, said the NRC's secretary general, Jan Egeland.
In a report released on Friday, the UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, said the Tatars faced numerous problems including physical harassment, fear of religious persecution and internal displacement.
The struggle for Janata Colony united slum dwellers across India, and brought attention to their summary displacement as cities developed.
Minutes later Obama's answer came back, just three characters short of his 140-character limit: "More severe weather events lead to displacement, scarcity, stressed populations; all increase likelihood of global conflict".
"Rather than painting a complete picture of displacement in a country, [the estimates] give a general indication of the scale of a number of situations at a given point in time," the report said.
Those people who seem to think there is a displacement between young people and older people are not reading the evidence and have a very old-fashioned approach to labour supply, as if there is a fixed amount of jobs in the economy.
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