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expel
(redirected from expellee)

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expel someone from something
to force someone to leave something or some place; to eject someone from something or some place. The two men expelled the fighters from the tavern. Ken was expelled from school for disciplinary reasons

expel something from something

to force or eject something out of something. The machine expelled cup after cup from its opening. The volcano expelled huge globs of molten lava.

squeeze something out of something and squeeze something out

to press something until something is expelled from something. Claire squeezed some toothpaste out of the tube. She squeezed out some toothpaste.
See also: out, squeeze

squeeze something out of somebody/something
to get something with great effort from someone or something Albert was good at thinking of ways to squeeze money out of his father in England. Fred didn't like to tell the truth, and you had to squeeze it out of him.
See also: out, squeeze


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For decades, Cold War conflicts and widespread expellee dreams of regaining their lost homes fostered a focus on communist perfidy in sponsoring the expulsions, while lack of access to East German and Eastern European archives otherwise limited research primarily to West German developments.
This accuracy has been proven in independent laboratories in the US and the UK, and more importantly in large-scale real-world deployments such as the UAE Expellee Watch List and the United Nations refugee program in Afghanistan and The Congo.
no one will take the expellee in, since expulsion is more dishonorable than imprisonment in the eyes of the rural population.
 
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