internally displaced person

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English

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WOTD – 19 August 2024

Etymology

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The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visiting internally displaced people in Zaporizhia on 5 June 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

From internally +‎ displaced +‎ person.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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internally displaced person (plural internally displaced persons or internally displaced people)

  1. Someone who is forced to flee their home but who remains within their country's borders.
    Synonyms: (initialism) IDP, internal refugee
    Hypernym: displaced person
    • 2023 May 11, Lizzy Davies, “Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-25:
      By the end of 2022 the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) – those forced from their homes but remaining within their country of residence – reached 71 million, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), up from 59.1 million in 2021.

Usage notes

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Internal refugee is often used as a synonym of internally displaced person, even though such a person does not fall within the legal definition of a refugee.

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Translations

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ “internally displaced person” under “internally displaced, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.

Further reading

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