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boat people definition

boat people

refugees from a certain country or region who try to immigrate to some other country, using small boats; specif., such refugees from Southeast Asia in the late 1970s

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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