evacuation (redirected from War evacuations)

e·vac·u·a·tion  (-vky-shn)

n.

1. The act of evacuating or the condition of being evacuated.

2. Physiology

a. Discharge of waste materials from the excretory passages of the body, especially from the bowels.

b. The material so discharged.

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1. The process of moving any person who is wounded, injured, or ill to and/or between medical treatment facilities.
2. The clearance of personnel, animals, or materiel from a given locality.
3. The controlled process of collecting, classifying, and shipping unserviceable or abandoned materiel, US or foreign, to appropriate reclamation, maintenance, technical intelligence, or disposal facilities.
4. The ordered or authorized departure of noncombatants from a specific area by Department of State, Department of Defense, or appropriate military commander. This refers to the movement from one area to another in the same or different countries. The evacuation is caused by unusual or emergency circumstances and applies equally to command or non-command sponsored family members. See also evacuee; noncombatant evacuation operations.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	evacuation - the act of removing the contents of something emptying, voidance remotion, removal - the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" drain, drainage - emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
	2.	evacuation - the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection withdrawal - the act of withdrawing; "the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam" medevac, medical evacuation, medivac - the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care
	3.	evacuation - the bodily process of discharging waste matter excreting, excretion, voiding, elimination defecation, laxation, shitting - the elimination of fecal waste through the anus expelling, discharge, emission - any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus" incontinence, incontinency - involuntary urination or defecation micturition, urination - the discharge of urine

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evacuation

noun

1. removal, departure, withdrawal, clearance, flight, expulsion, exodus an evacuation of the city's four million inhabitants

2. abandonment, withdrawal from, pulling out, moving out, clearance from, vacation from the mass evacuation of Srebrenica

Translations

evacuation [ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃən] N

1. [of people] → evacuación f

2. [of building, area] → evacuación f

3. (frm) [of bowels] → evacuación f

evacuation [ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃ^ən] n

(= removal) [people] → évacuation f

(= clearing) [place] → évacuation f

evacuation

n (of fort, house, danger area) → Räumung f; (of civilians, women, children) → Evakuierung f

evacuation [ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃ/ən] n (see vb) → sfollamento, evacuazione f