returnee
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.
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