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returnee Definition

re·turnee (ri tʉr′nē)

noun

a person who returns, as home from military service or to school after dropping out

returnee Usage Examples

Preposition: from

  • country: We estimate these will be 150,000 out of a projected total estimate of 400,000 returnees from the country.

Converse of object

  • help: Ockenden is focusing its efforts on helping the returnees rebuild their lives, and prevent them from falling into the traps of the past.
  • intimidate: Police in Stolac and in Gacko proved unwilling or unable to contain the numerous instances of arson designed to intimidate returnees.
  • welcome: This group were the official delegation to welcome the Returnees.
  • encourage: UNHCR is encouraging returnees to start emergency repairs wherever feasible.
  • target: We even have a specialist group dealing with overseas applicants, and another targeting returnees.

Adjective modifier

  • recent: He had to be content with fifth ahead of recent returnee Jonathan Rose.
  • welcome: Welcome returnee Mike Gardner got straight back into the swings of things by qualifying fifth for his first race since April 2005.
  • other: Mercy Corps came to Srebrenica to meet and discuss its assistance programs with Spahic and other returnees.
  • first: These last chapters of Isaiah relate to the period following the arrival of the first returnees from exile in Babylon.
  • involuntary: Whilst identifying several categories of individual at risk, they concluded that involuntary returnees to Sudan generally would not be in danger.
  • Chinese: The Indonesian Chinese returnees in China and Hong Kong ( book-length project ).

Modifies a noun

  • family: In addition to providing returnee families with essential household income, the project is also helping to reverse negative agricultural trends in the area.
  • child: The Concerned Parents Association ( CPA ) work very closely with returnee child mothers.
  • community: In 2001, this successful program expanded to provide cross-border services to the returnee communities in the state of Huehuetenango in Guatemala.

Noun used with modifier

  • woman: This survey will help us in our mission to raise the awareness of women returnees and their careers.
  • championship: The evergreen Stuart Kestenbaum got on the podium in the Brands Hatch Season Starter last weekend, and is the highest-placed championship returnee.
  • series: Pre 87 young gun Ryan Campbell ( Reynard 83FF ) took fourth ahead of series returnee Hugh Graham.
  • circus: The equipment will provide not only work for circus returnees but food for the children's refuges and a source of local income.