asylum
asylum
Definition
asy·lum (ə sī′ləm)
noun
- Obsolete a sanctuary, as a temple, where criminals, debtors, etc. were safe from arrest
- a place where one is safe and secure; refuge
- the protection given by a sanctuary or refuge or by one country to refugees from another country
- an institution for the care of the mentally ill, or of the aged, the poor, etc.: in this sense, largely replaced by such terms as mental (or psychiatric) hospital, nursing home, etc.
Etymology: L < Gr asylon < asylos, inviolable < a-, without + sylon, right of seizure
asylum
Synonyms
asylum
Law Definition
n
A place of refuge,
sanctuary, or shelter, especially an institution for the maintenance and care
of people requiring special assistance.
political asylum
- The decision by a countrys government to allow within its border a person from another country and to protect that person from prosecution and persecution by that other countrys government.
- The protection and refuge granted by a country to citizens and residents of other countries who obtain entry unto the premises of its foreign embassies and consulates.
asylum
Usage Examples
Preposition: from
- persecution: Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
Converse of object
- seek: People seeking asylum are not normally allowed to work in the UK.
- refuse: Applicants who are refused asylum may be granted ' exceptional leave to remain ' .
- claim: Only two out of ten people who claim asylum in Britain today are genuine refugees.
- grant: This includes helping refugees with resettlement once the Home Office has granted asylum.
Adjective modifier
- lunatic: She ended up in a lunatic asylum shortly afterward.
- unaccompanied: Read more NASS has launched informal consultation on an Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Reform Program.
- insane: Her insane asylums are filled and the prisons are bursting with people.
- political: With death threats ringing in his ears, Coleman fled with his family to Sweden, and was granted political asylum.
- mental: This movement attempted to develop an alternative to the Victorian practice of placing people with epilepsy in mental asylums.
- colonial: Mills ' analysis of the production of knowledge about cannabis in the colonial asylum is quite outstanding.
Modifies a noun
- seeker: Each asylum seeker detained there brings profit to GSL.
- claim: The ECHR contains Article 3 under which asylum claims can be made.
- applicant: For example 9 out of 10 asylum applicants remain in Britain whether or not their case is accepted.
- claimant: On average, the European Union received 1 asylum claimant per 1,000 inhabitants during 2002 ( 3 ).
- application: They seek refugee status in another country by lodging an asylum application.
- appeal: Action An asylum support appeal form must be lodged ( i.e. received by the ASA ) within 3 working days of the decision.
Noun used with modifier
- lunatic: In the years before Hampshire's county lunatic asylum existed, the Winchester workhouse provided care for " lunatic and mentally handicapped paupers " .
- orphan: They decide to employ a boy to help them with the duties on their farm and approach the orphan asylum for suggestions.
- county: The number of county asylum beds was never sufficient to meet the demand.
asylum Quotes
All America is an insane asylum.
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
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