boat people

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[pl.] people who escape from their own country in small boats to try to find safety in another country: Vietnamese boat people

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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boat peopleEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus boat peopleEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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boat people