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Asylum Noun Government Person Country Stay Unable Return

word asylum
definition
noun
If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons .
He applied for asylum in 1987 after fleeing the police back home.
An asylum is a psychiatric hospital.
inflections asylums
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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